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SIXTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME PRIORITY 3

Nano-technologies and nano-sciences, knowledge-based multifunctional

materials, and new production processes and devices – ‘NMP’

Contract for:

NETWORK OF EXCELLENCE

Annex I: Description of Work for the next 18 months From 1st September 2006 to 29th February 2008 (M25-M42)

Project acronym: NanoMemPro Project full title: "Expanding membrane macroscale applications by exploring nanoscale material properties" Proposal/Contract no.: 500623-2 Date of preparation: 23/01/2007 Start date of contract: 1st September 2004

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. PROJECT SUMMARY .....................................................................................................................................................4 2. PROJECT OBJECTIVES .................................................................................................................................................5 3. PARTICIPANTS LIST ......................................................................................................................................................8 4. RELEVANCE TO THE OBJECTIVES OF THE SPECIFIC PROGRAMME AND/OR THEMATIC PRIORITY..................................................................................................................................................................................................9 5. POTENTIAL IMPACT....................................................................................................................................................13

5.1 CONTRIBUTIONS TO STANDARDS ...................................................................................................................................19 5.2 CONTRIBUTION TO POLICY DEVELOPMENTS ..................................................................................................................19 5.3 RISK ASSESSMENT AND RELATED COMMUNICATION STRATEGY ....................................................................................19

6. OUTLINE JOINT PROGRAMME OF ACTIVITIES (JPA) FOR THE FULL DURATION OF THE PROJECT................................................................................................................................................................................................20

6.A ACTIVITIES ...................................................................................................................................................................21 6.B PLANS...........................................................................................................................................................................31 6.C MILESTONES.................................................................................................................................................................34

7. QUALITY OF INTEGRATION AND PERFORMANCE INDICATORS .................................................................36 8. PROJECT ORGANISATION, MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES ......................................48

8.1 ORGANISATIONAL, MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE...............................................................................48 8.2 MONITORING AND REPORTING PROGRESS......................................................................................................................51

9. DETAILED JOINT PROGRAMME OF ACTIVITIES (JPA) ....................................................................................53 9.1 INTRODUCTION - GENERAL DESCRIPTION AND MILESTONES ..........................................................................................53 9.2 PLANNING AND TIMETABLE...........................................................................................................................................68 9.3 GRAPHICAL PRESENTATION OF WORK PACKAGES..........................................................................................................73 9.4 WORK PACKAGE LIST/OVERVIEW ..................................................................................................................................74 9.5 DELIVERABLES LIST ......................................................................................................................................................75 9.6 WORK PACKAGE DESCRIPTIONS ....................................................................................................................................79

10. PROJECT RESOURCES AND ESTIMATION OF INCURRED ELIGIBLE COSTS.........................................119 10.1 BUDGET.....................................................................................................................................................................119 10.2 EC CONTRIBUTION FOR THE FULL DURATION OF THE PROJECT ..................................................................................120 10.3 PROJECT MANAGEMENT LEVEL DESCRIPTION OF RESOURCES AND GRANT.................................................................120

11. ETHICAL ISSUES .......................................................................................................................................................122 APPENDIX A - CONSORTIUM DESCRIPTION / EXCELLENCE OF PARTICIPANTS ......................................124

A.1 PARTICIPANTS AND CONSORTIUM ..............................................................................................................................124 APPENDIX A - MISCELLANEOUS ...............................................................................................................................140

A.1 PARTICIPANTS AND CONSORTIUM/EXCELLENCE OF PARTICIPANTS ............................................................................140 A.2 SUB-CONTRACTING ....................................................................................................................................................156 A.3 THIRD PARTIES...........................................................................................................................................................158

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GLOSSARY

A AFM Atomic Force Microscopy APDCA Analysis-Plan-Do-Check-re-Act

B BAT Best Available Technology BICs Business & Innovation Centres BP Business Plan

C CA Consortium Agreement CEN European committee for standardization (Comité européen de normalisation)

D DEFC Direct Ethanol Fuel Cell DMFC Direct Methanol Fuel Cell

E EBN European Business Network EC European Commission ECVAM European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods ECS European Cooperative Society ED Electrodialysis EEIG European Economic Interest Grouping EFQM European Foundation of Quality Management EMS European Membrane Society ExC Executive Committee

G GB Governing Board

H HMT Head of Integrative Management Team HR-TEM High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy HRFS High Resolution Force Spectroscopy

I ICIM International Congress on Inorganic Membranes ICOM International Congress on Membranes IMT Integrative Management Team IPR Intellectual Property Rights IPTS Institute for Prospective Technological Studies IPUDC Industrial Property Use and Dissemination Committee IST Instituto Superior Tecnico IUPAC International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry

J JPA Joint Programme of Activities JPI Joint Programme of Integration

JPR Joint Programme of Research JPS Joint Programme for Spreading of Excellence

M MET Membrane Extraction Technology MF Microfiltration MRS Membrane Research Society

N NF Nanofiltration NGO Non Governemental Organisation

P PDCA Plan-Do-Check-Act PV Pervaporation

S SC Scientific Council SOFC Solid Oxide Fuel Cell SRA Strategic Research Agenda

U UF Ultrafiltration UTL Universidad Tecnica Lisboa

V VS Vapour separation

W WPL Workpackage Leader

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1. PROJECT SUMMARY Membrane science has a leading role in the expected innovative processes and it is now considered as one of the main strategic axes of research activities in all developed countries. Advanced Technology Programs in the USA or Japan involve them. It is thus mandatory for Europe to reorganize smartly the membrane research and knowledge supply chain in order to be able to face the future challenges and to recover its past leadership Membranes play a key role in today’s modern industry and medical therapy. With an annual growth rate of 10 to 20 % of the membrane market, membranes will quite likely become more and more important in the future. They should play an increasingly and central role in a lot of systems/operations (for separation but also reaction, sensors and actuators, artificial organs, packaging…) and fields of applications (chemical, pharmaceutical, health, energy, food, environmental, electronic, process… industries). The total world market is expected to exceed 9.2 billion Euros in the next decade. Membranes may represent the most appropriate image of sustainable development insofar as they are in general a-thermal and do not involve phase changes or chemical additives. Artificial membranes which are in the heart of our concerns are yet just very coarse copies of cellular membranes which ensure all the basic functions of life. To make artificial membranes increasingly effective and capable to bring their performances closer to those of their biological model, it will be necessary to be able to control the properties of materials which constitute them on the nanoscale if not at the molecular level. Based on these reports, the objectives of the NanoMemPro Network of excellence are the following:

• Establish a European virtual laboratory of excellence in membrane materials and engineering with a durable structure.

• Create an Integrated European task force in complex multifunctional membrane science research. • Coordinate and orientate European membrane research according to the society’s needs. • Create lasting synergies between researchers from different disciplines in order to overcome the technical

challenges of membrane sciences. • Promote a common language among membranologists by developing common procedures and tests. • Create a European dimension of research careers in membrane technology fields. • Establish permanent interactions between membrane researchers, industries and end-users and accelerate new

discoveries and industrial applications of membrane technology. • Initiate a new training and education programme in order to support the development of the future

generation of European membranologists. • Foster international exchange of information on the development and application of membranes for the

benefit of all. The 13 scientific core members associated in this initiative undoubtedly represent today’s nucleus of EU research centres regarding the NanoMemPro objectives. They are well positioned at the interface of material and process sciences, endowed with a critical mass of experts and facilities, strongly linked to the whole scientific community (which should enable them to have an easy access to additional means when needed) and have a significant experience of collaborations (joint actions in particular through FP4 and FP5, works published jointly or attendance in the same Congresses or Scientific Societies). These core members offer all the necessary guarantees to reach the effective integration of activities that should lead to the creation of the virtual Laboratory of Excellence that Europe needs. The NanoMemPro Network provides answers to the eminent needs for coordinated future R&D of membrane science and technology in Europe and smartly links nano and macro scale in both basic and applied researches. Its activities will undoubtedly have a great impact in restructuring the Membrane research in Europe and will foster the production of new knowledge by the quality of the results it which will generate. The Nanomempro’s activities will be integrated in a strong management system adapted to networking. Finally, the network will contribute to the answer the European R&D strategy wants to bring to the changing economic and social requirements. It will deliver concrete benefits to citizen, promote competitiveness of EU companies, reinforce European scientific excellence. By this way and by connecting basic research to industry applications, NanoMemPro is going to overcome boundaries and to give Europe an effective visibility and capacity to have a leading position in the Membrane development at the international level.

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2. PROJECT OBJECTIVES Basically, a membrane can be defined as a complex high performance multifunctional barrier, which separates two phases and facilitates the transport of various substances in a highly selective way. It can be homogeneous or heterogeneous, symmetric or asymmetric in structure, solid or liquid and can carry a positive or negative charge or be neutral or bipolar. Transport through membrane materials can be affected by convection or by diffusion of individual molecules, induced by electric field or concentration, pressure or temperature gradient. The membrane thickness may vary from a few nanometres to a few millimetres and the separation capacity from the ionic/molecular (0.1 to 10 nanometres) range to the macro particle range (10-102 micrometers). A deeper materials analysis and characterisation of structure and properties as well as modelling and design in molecular and nanoscale level becomes essential for a high control of process performances and an advanced knowledge of membrane functions.

The industrial development of membranes dates back to the 60’s with the implementation of the first water desalination plants based on reverse osmosis technology. Meanwhile, haemodialysis membranes arose as a major advance in solving problems of kidney deficiency. Since this pioneering period where European industries played a prominent role, membrane processes have evolved and found use in many other applications with a strong socio-economic impact on citizens’ daily life (Figure 1). Membrane science has a leading role in the innovative processes and it is now considered as one of the main strategic axes of research activities in all developed countries. The USA has already included membrane research as one of its Advanced Technology Programs. The large and well-structured programmes funded in the US and also in Japan have been detrimental to the economic development in EU and caused the loss of Europe’s world lead in this field. As a consequence, fewer new products are now commercialised and used by EU research groups for the society’s benefit. Europe could also play a major role, if the European research as a whole and companies react efficiently to reorganize smartly the membrane research and knowledge supply chain in European countries. What is currently missing in Europe is: • A lateral thinking and a holistic approach to address common problems in different fields (energy,

environment chemistry, food, medical applications etc.). • A multidisciplinary approach in order to overcome the variety of technical challenges. • A high level of European education in membrane sciences. • A creation of synergies with industry and end-users in order to supply the market with highly innovative and

competent products.

The objective of the proposal is to overcome the highly fragmented and multidisciplinary research and restore the knowledge supply chain on membrane science in Europe by integrating membrane activities in a Network of Excellence grouping together the most significant institutions, i.e. 13 partners coming from 13 different countries and working for various Universities or Research Centres. A significant number of small and medium-sized enterprises or large industrial companies covering very large fields of activities will join them as a Club of interest. Finally, by associating other members selected as and when the need for fine knowledge of the particular addressed question (either regarding membrane material/process or applications) arises, the NanoMemPro Network of Excellence would include many multidisciplinary knots in which all the scientific tools available would be implemented simultaneously in order to get the best results and converge quickly to industrialization purposes.

The NanoMemPro Network has developed a particular strategy in order to insure a long-term integration of the European resources in membrane sciences. The main idea is to create a first core group of European research centres of excellence highly committed to integrating progressively their resources and national facilities. Cost optimisation by sharing resources, facilities and infrastructures is the first step towards lasting integration. After a certain period of time, and with the active participation of members, national programmes and funds could be assimilated by the Network. The European industry will be integrated in this initiative as a Club of Interest represented in the Network committees and it will play a key role in generating and exploiting the technology. The Club of Interest will be in charge of advising on the industrial and citizen needs, orienting research projects,

MembraneApplications

Waterpurification

Drugdelivery

Chemicaland food

processing

Bio-separations

Medicaltreatment

Energytechnologies

Figure 1: Membrane technology applications in citizen’s daily life

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Figure 2: Relationship between the NanoMemPro Network and the Club of Interest

following research progress and finally informing the industrial community about potential applications. It will participate in research programmes and finance activities of its interest.

Citizen awareness

NanoMemPro Club ofInterest

Advanced techn. inform.

Technology transfer

Financing studies

Research orientation

Social needs

Research ofExcellence

Optimisedtechnologydiffusion

NanoMemPro Club ofInterest

It will also be enriched by new members interested in participating and financing its activities. These new members could be: industrialists, public services interested in membrane challenges, citizen associations willing to inform people about how important quality performances are to life technologies and finally, International organisations dedicated to preserving human life in the world. The Network’s financial resources could finally be completed by the creation of research, information and consulting related services. The aim is to create a legal entity in the more appropriate form and to be financially autonomous once the four-year EU funding assistance has expired. The Network durability and the integration of all Network activities will be assessed by specific quality indicators.

The NanoMemPro Network corresponds to the general objectives of the thematic priority 3.4.2.3. entitled “Engineering support for materials development” and more specifically to those of the sub-priority called “New knowledge-based higher performance materials for macro-scale applications”. It responds to the eminent needs for coordinating future R&D of membrane science and technology in Europe and smartly links nano and macro scale in both basic and applied researches.

The basic research must be focused on the modelling of membrane processes and membrane properties such as molecular diffusion, solubility of different components in a membrane matrix, the formation of different membrane structures and new membrane characterisation techniques. It will also include the development of brand new membranes and processes taking into account the research done in other areas such as, for instance, molecular imprints, nano-technology, non linear optics and studies on biological membranes. New concepts likely to modify the approach as well as the use of membrane materials will also be looked at very carefully: micro fluidics, micro-reactors. The basic research in membrane science will rely heavily on the cooperation of different scientific disciplines.

The applied research and development will include the development of new and “better” membranes and establish further know-how for state-of-the-art processes and the development of brand new applications and processes. Finally, it will include the development of preferential process components as well as post- and pre-treatment procedures and integrated membrane operations.

Membranes undoubtedly play a key role in today’s modern industry and medical therapy. With an annual growth rate of the membrane market of 10% to 20%, membranes will quite likely become more and more important in the future. The total world market is expected to exceed 9.2 billion Euros in the next decade. Membranes may represent the most appropriate image of sustainable development: they are in general a-thermal and do not involve phase changes or chemical additives; they are simple in concept and operation, modular and easy to scale up, use very little energy and have a great potential for more rational utilization of raw materials, recovery and re-use of by-products. High level of control and automation, easy compatibility and integration with other methodologies are also typical of modern membrane processes. A greater knowledge of the membrane applications, and a widespread encouragement and dissemination of their use would definitely improve the quality of life of every EU citizen.

The NanoMemPro proposal has established a complete plan of activities: integrating activities, joint programme for research, spreading of excellence. These activities can be integrated only with a strong management system adapted in Networking activities. Members were selected according to a rigorous set of criteria: their intrinsic notoriety, the

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nature of their activities and their level of integration in the various programmes or scientific societies already in existence. In order to ease the integration, management, clarity and legibility of the NanoMemPro Network, one single scientific institution has been selected in each country to support the project plus one partner specifically in charge of implementing and supervising management tasks. The 13 scientific core members undoubtedly represent today’s nucleus of EU research centres regarding the NanoMemPro objectives. A critical mass of 122 researchers and 57 PhD students has been integrated for funding in this Network. However, the work done by over 180 researchers and 100 PhD students representing the whole potential of the core members will be considered in this Network. The members have greatly contributed to the development of membranes and conducted applications related to the proposed research actions. In addition, most of these Centres got to know each other well and worked in close collaboration during the previous 4th and 5th Framework Programmes, either on research and development-oriented tasks or within the scope of education Networks. Starting from and while developing their complementarities, the Network will aim at creating a virtual and world-oriented laboratory to help Europe restore its leadership. The objective is to associate progressively the major research players in membranes in Europe.

The whole Network will be administrated by an original matrix management system especially adapted to a durable Network and based on the principles of the European Foundation of Quality Management (EFQM) as well as on the European standards for project management (ISO 10006). The whole management system will be implemented by a project management specialist, partner in NanoMemPro during the first 18 months of the project. It comprises three main management levels: Strategic, Integrative, and Activity management. In its management level, the fundamental part of the continuous improvement principle (Deming wheel) ensures that the Network will reach the objective of integration and extend its duration. Further information on the management activities and system is provided in the description of management organisation.

Sciences, and more particularly membranes, are getting more and more complex. One of the main reasons for that is the high number of scientific and technological areas that students and researchers must integrate as soon as possible in order to generate new knowledge. The NanoMemPro Network of Excellence will adopt an integrated approach to the education of students and training of researchers and staffs with a view to improving the level of research in Europe and increasing Excellence. Special courses on membrane science and technology will be designed by a NanoMemPro committee and implemented at participants' sites. This could lead to settle a specific Master Degree covering the area of NanoMemPro activities. A European PhD graduate study will also be implemented in order to increase the excellence level of European researchers. Management of talents or specific awards, summer schools and other incentives will be taken by the Network. A description is given in section “spreading of excellence activities”.

The NanoMemPro Network has adopted a plan to extend the excellence and disseminate the knowledge in and out of the Network. A high degree of internal dissemination and knowledge sharing will be obtained by reinforcing the electronic communication and by maintaining common knowledge bases. Three levels of external dissemination have been identified: towards the citizen, the scientific community in Europe as well as in the third countries, and finally the industrial world. Different actions have been planed in order to reinforce citizens’ public awareness and favour the easy understanding of science. The common strategy is to support the development of school science, engineering and technology education by offering specific science teaching modules, school visits, easy articles and awards for young people. The scientific community will be informed on the Network’s activities via electronic newsletters, workshops and the European Membrane Society, a learned society that has been existing since 1982 and which organises different scientific and technological events at European level. The Network will also focus on strengthening communication with other Networks in order to exchange best practices in management and discuss scientific results. Particular attention will also be paid to the reinforcement of cooperation with third countries and international organisations. The business community will be informed through the Club of Interest and through an active collaboration with the European Business and Innovation Centres Network (EBN) that will provide channels for dissemination and support for creation of new innovative businesses. The NanoMemPro Network of Excellence definitely represents the sustainable and irreversible decision of its members (constitution of a legal entity) to contribute to the construction of the European Research Area by providing a European approach to membrane research and technology transfer, and promoting scientific career for European students and culture for European citizens.

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3. PARTICIPANTS LIST

Particip. Role*

Partic. Number

Participant name Participant short name and n°

Country Date enter project**

Date exit project**

CO 1 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

CNRS FR M0 M48

CR 2 Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine

Imperial UK M0 M48

CR 3 Instituto de Biologia Experimentale Tecnológica

IBET P M0 M48

CR 4 GKSS Forschungszentrum Geesthacht GmbH

GKSS D M0 M48

CR 5 Institute of Chemical Engineering and High Temperature Chemical Processes- Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas

FORTH/ICE-HT

GR M0 M48

CR 6 Flemish Institute for Technological Research

Vito BE M0 M48

CR 7 The Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research at the Norwegian Institute of Technology

SINTEF NO M0 M48

CR 8 University of Twente UTwente NL M0 M48 CR 9 Universidad de Zaragoza UNIZAR SP M0 M48 CR 10 Lappeenranta University of

Technology LUT FI M0 M48

CR 11 Istituto per la Tecnologia delle Membrane

ITM-CNR IT M0 M48

CR 12 Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague

ICTP CZ M0 M48

CR 13 Technical University of Denmark

DTU DK M0 M48

CR 14 ACIES1 ACIES FR M0 M18 List of Participants

*CO = Coordinator, CR = Contractor **Normally insert “month 1 (start of project)” and “month n (end of project)” These columns are needed for possible later contract revisions due to participants joining/leaving the Project 1) End of ACIES participation on 28 February 2006.

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4. RELEVANCE TO THE OBJECTIVES OF THE SPECIFIC PROGRAMME

AND/OR THEMATIC PRIORITY The project corresponds to the thematic priority 3.4.2.3. entitled “Engineering support for materials development” and more specifically to the sub-priority called “New knowledge-based higher performance materials for macro-scale applications”. The NanoMemPro Network follows the initiative of major European Universities and Research Institutes to establish a common approach to integrating a variety of disciplines that address membrane issues by linking the molecular and nanoscale structures and properties of knowledge-based materials to the process development of more environment-friendly and tailored made approaches of significant innovative applications with great impact on the quality of life and European competitiveness.

Molecular scaleinformation

Nanoscalematerial

properties

Membranefunction and

control ofperformances

Process andsystem

optimisation

Socialneeds

Sustainablesociety

NanoMemPro’s contribution to European competitiveness and to the knowledge supply chain Membranes technology constitutes a growing market in the separation capabilities of gases, liquids, metals and microbes. The potential deployment of membrane technologies on the European continent is large; however the world markets should be at least 3 times bigger than the European market and industries will be strongly exposed to win a large share of it. The total world market is expected to exceed 9.2 billion Euros in the next decade with a yearly growing rate of 10-20%. The large and well-structured programmes funded in the US and Japan have been detrimental to the economic development in EU and caused the loss of Europe’s world lead in this field. As a consequence, fewer new products are now commercialised and used by EU research groups for the society’s benefit. It can be pointed out that from the high number of finished project in membrane technologies referenced by Cordis, only 5% has been identified as technology commercial offers in this area. In addition, national agencies have differing priorities in membrane sciences. This means that expertise from different EU countries may be dedicated in differing directions. Indeed, the research supply chain in Europe does not seem to be as effective as in the US and Japan, in producing new products, in spite of excellent individual research groups in whole Europe. What is currently missing in Europe is the framework for transferring academic knowledge to a commercial level. Such set-ups have been existing for years in the USA (link industry/academia), and have been greatly contributing to the regions’ commercial success ever since.

Europe could also play a major role if the European research and companies react efficiently to reorganize smartly the membrane research and knowledge supply chain in European countries. Therefore, what is now needed is a greater integration of the research supply chain, which in turn will lead to the development of more products beyond the research stage. This supply chain must definitely be integrated within the next few years to restore Europe’s place in this very large and multidisciplinary scientific domain related to a number of the key forthcoming technological issues.

The major objective of the NanoMemPro Network of Excellence is to coordinate and orient priority research according to social needs and create the necessary synergies with industry and end-users in order to supply the market with highly innovative and competent products. To bring about this integration, the Network will strengthen communication with Industry in order to accelerate technology transfer particularly with SMEs. Different activities will be created towards this direction. A special Club of Interest (see Appendix A) representing the major industrial sectors will be created in order to orient research activities and stimulate knowledge transfer to the industrial world. In parallel, the industry-oriented Network will provide private organisations with incentives

Figure 3: Common research approach to link molecular scale to process development

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regarding the provision of financial aids for networking activities of their interest and then collaborate with the NanoMemPro Network on a longer term basis. The model of “Leading Technological Institute” will be applied to accelerate the transfer of technologies to SMEs. Finally, the collaboration with the European Business and Innovation Centres Network (EBN) and its 230 members from EU and other countries will give NanoMemPro a wide access to incubators and other entrepreneurship centres that will foster the creation of new innovative businesses.

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Contribution to sustainable development In all the major areas of interest to the EU, membrane technologies have the potential to play a leading role in increasing the sustainability of our life support systems. They can be part of a cleaner and more energy-efficient technology society. They are inherently good at adapting to small-scale distributed use, which allows spreading technology into rural area efficiently. Membranes are relevant to a wide range of processes that have a direct impact on the quality of life, from food manufacture to environmental protection. Greater knowledge of the applications of membranes, and widespread encouragement and dissemination of their use would filter down to every EU citizen quality of life improvement.

This approach allows ensuring radical changes in the quality of life and therefore greatly supports the European policy on sustainable development: • Appreciable energy savings. • Standardisation of required know-how and skills at operators’ level. • Environmentally benign. • Clean technology with operational ease. • Replacement of conventional processes e.g. filtration, distillation, ion-exchange, chemical treatment systems. • Production of high quality and safe products. • Greater flexibility in designing systems.

Advancement in membranes will contribute substantially to the improvement of standards in many sectors and to the harmonisation of methods and products that are necessary to improve the quality of life. Collaborative work with international organizations like UNESCO should also be initiated in order to provide international humanitarian programmes with innovative solutions to improve the quality of life in poor countries (e.g. clean drinking water programme).

Contribution to generate knowledge EU’s major needs for new knowledge concern areas which will focus on improving health care, making environment cleaner, supplying clean water and food, improving transportation and increasing the sustainability of our society. Membrane research can contribute to developing knowledge in all these areas. Accordingly, the institutions involved in the core group exhibit an extended expertise across and beyond the traditional scientific frontiers of membrane science. The following targeted applications have been selected for the specific role that membranes can play in support of sustainable technological development and people’s well-being: • Life support and health. • Clean and safe production processes: system approach and hazard control, fluid (water and air) issues. • Food quality: Safer and environmentally friendly production methods, new technologies for healthier

foodstuffs, transfer of know-how. • Sustainable energy systems.

Reduction of fragmentation of membrane research in Europe and durable integration Today, the research on membranes in EU is very fragmented. There are indeed many groups under the critical size and with insufficient background to deal with the present challenges put on membranes, i.e. the emergence of technological breakthroughs (processes and systems) based on new membrane materials able to work at the molecular or ionic level, or having well-controlled nanoscale properties. Fragmentation occurs along the lines of materials (organic versus inorganic membranes, porous versus dense membranes), ranges of operation (low temperature versus high temperature membranes) and applications (biological, environmental, chemical, energy, reaction-separation...), all of these resulting in partial solutions to the problems faced.

Because of the technological significance and scientific interest of membrane materials, a number of European labs have developed intensive programmes on membrane research. The lack of coordination of these activities at a European level has resulted in both fragmentation of research efforts and focusing on certain subjects while systematically overlooking others. The large number of non-coordinated initiatives and projects on membranes presented during the previous 4th and 5th Framework Programmes showed evidence of this dispersion, as well as of the lack of real technological breakthroughs in the proposed actions. This can become obvious, for instance, through the accumulation of publications on some specific issues or materials by several research labs. In addition, individual groups, excellent within their research field, rarely exchange concepts and tools with other research groups that have reached a similar level of excellence in another research area. A holistic approach to address problems in different fields (energy, environment chemistry, food, medical applications etc.), is necessary to expand knowledge in membranes.

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Considerable achievements in terms of material structure characterisation and transport simulation techniques developed by Network partners and applied to other applications (gas sensors, thin films, reactive solids or porous media) can generally be used almost directly in membrane research, thus saving considerable efforts from membrane people. The same holds for material preparation techniques. In a similar way, it is worth pointing out that the developed know-how of the structure of membrane materials can also led to worthwhile development in other application fields (texture food control). Lateral thinking is therefore largely absent and synergies are lost in this way in EU. The collaboration of all these different labs will ensure that considerable research and development efforts are saved and optimised through the integration of the already available state-of-the-art know-how and technology.

The multidisciplinary character of membranes technology The intrinsic multidisciplinary character of membrane science has been, and still is, one of the major obstacles to the further exploitation of its possibilities. A variety of technical challenges must be overcome to permit the successful industrial application of new membrane solutions. For example, the development of affinity membranes will depend on material advances and increases in module reliability under extreme-temperature cycling. This development also requires research on electron-beam and UV grafting and other approaches to the modification of membrane chemistry. The development of tuneable membranes will require extensive research on materials and assembly processes. Generally, advanced membranes and module materials need to be matched with appropriate and economical manufacturing processes. The limitations still existing today to the large-scale industrial applicability of several membrane operations can not only be attributed, in part, to inadequate intrinsic membrane material properties (low permeability and selectivity, low thermal and chemical resistance etc.) but also to inadequate module design, hydrodynamic studies and in general engineering analysis and support (Figure 4).

The objectives of the NanoMemPro Network will contribute to integrating a European Research Area in membrane sciences by creating a virtual centre of Excellence and by defining a common European approach to research facilities of this scientific area. In addition, the Network will mobilize the necessary critical mass in human resources to adopt a multidisciplinary approach in this field by integrating 13 of the largest research organizations located in 13 different countries and one project management partner. It will take the necessary actions to stimulate mobility in Europe, attract and educate high level students and scientists in the field of membranes. Cooperation with third countries and international organizations will also be promoted via workshops and Network cooperation (Northern and Latin America, Northern Africa, etc.).

Overall structure of activities and its various components The NanoMemPro Network has adopted a complete plan of activities in order to obtain a durable integration of the European virtual laboratory on membranes and develop a task force in this area. The structure and main components of these activities are shown in Figure 5 below. A more detailed structure of the organisation of activities is presented in the management organisation (§ 8).

MembraneEngineering

MaterialScience

ReactionEngineering

ProcessTechnology

ModuleDesign

Mass/EnergyTransport

MaterialProcessing

From molecule

To process

Figure 4: The multidisciplinary character of membranes technology

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Adaptation oforganisation

structuresIntegratedknowledge

management

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Reinforcement ofelectronic

communication

Plan for mobility

Benefit for:

- European research- Students- Industry- Science community- Society

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andTechno.transfer

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European virtuallaboratory of excellencein membrane sciences

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Figure 5: Structure of the NanoMemPro activities

5. POTENTIAL IMPACT Effective integration and long-term structuring impact The European research effort on membranes as it stands today is no more than the simple addition of the efforts made by the Member States of the Union. The fragmentation, isolation and compartmentalisation of national efforts and systems and the disparity of regulatory and administrative systems only serve to compound the impact of lower global investment in knowledge. The forthcoming enlargement of the Union will only increase this need.

The NanoMemPro Network has developed a particular management strategy in order to insure a long-term integration of the European resources in membrane sciences. The main idea is to create a first core group of European research centres of excellence able to integrate progressively their resources and facilities. This core group will be structured by a new legal entity (European Economic Interest Grouping -EEIG- or European Cooperative Society -ECS -…) specially formed for this purpose. The aim is to set up a scientific pole of coordination and orientation of membrane research in Europe that will be supported by the creation of a European Technology Platform. The European industry and public services will be integrated in this initiative as a Club of Interest represented in the Network committees. Its role will be, first, to advise on the industrial needs, then to orient research projects, follow research progress and finally inform the industrial community and society about potential applications. In addition, the Club of Interest will participate in research programmes and finance activities of its interest. For example, PhD studies related to Network activities can be financed by industrialists that have indirect access to technical results and technologies. The Network will also attract European and international resources thanks, notably, to the Mobility Networks that will be established through the Marie Curie European association programmes and other NanoMemPro initiatives (facilities, talents attraction, and funds). The activities of this group of excellence will be open to the European and International scientific community with special workshops and controlled access to the knowledge database. New active members may also be introduced if they can justify their excellence in membranes, or any related fields, as an example through a Club of Expertise that would gather eminent individualities from various Institutions not belonging to NanoMemPro. Finally entrepreneurship will be stimulated through establishing an active collaboration with the European Business Network (EBN) as further described in Appendix A.

Only two third of the members’ potential is represented in the official participation. The Network will therefore limit Europe’s financial contribution in its activities. However it undertakes to use the whole potential of resources needed. This contribution will be constantly decreased (assessment performed with the use of a specific indicator). The Network’s financial durability can be then ensured by: • a progressive integration of national programmes, • an increasing financial participation of industries, • and the integration of services in industry and scientific communities, • a cost optimisation concerning resources, facilities and infrastructures under the Network,

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• a regular construction of partnerships and projects with the support of all public/private financing possibilities, from international level to regional.

The whole Network will be administrated by an original matrix management system especially adapted to the durability of the Network and based on the principles of the European Foundation of Quality Management (EFQM) as well as on the European standards for project management (ISO 10006). It comprises three main management levels: Strategic management, Integrative process management, Activity management. In its management level, the fundamental aspect of the continuous improvement principle tool (Deming wheel or PDCA) ensures that the Network reaches the objective of integration and extends its duration. Further information on the management activities and system is provided in the management activity description.

Resolution of tomorrow's knowledge problems The FP6 priority areas offer new chances and challenges for membrane technologies and requisite materials. Health, food safety, energy and clean processes are as many socio-economical areas in which membranes can play a prominent role in improving the quality of life and insuring a sustainable development in EU. A prerequisite to the implementation of efficient membrane tools in the aforementioned domains is the emergence of technological breakthroughs based on new membranes that are able to work at molecular or ionic levels. Beyond the conventional separation technologies (MF, UF, NF, and ED), innovative processes and systems in which the role of the membrane could be extended to reaction, extraction, distribution and contact between two phases or media are on the verge of being developed. In addition, a new generation of membrane-based sensors should enable to greatly increase efficiency, reliability and safety. In response to this social and economical demand, the investigation of a new generation of membrane materials should greatly benefit from the ongoing development of nanosciences and nanotechnologies. The following table shows the targeted application areas and the challenge to meet in the mid and long run.

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Area of application

Knowledge-based membrane materials to develop

Challenges Medium-term impact Long-term impact Beneficiaries

Health care

Bio compatible and bio inspired materials – Biohybrid organs. - Membrane with controlled surface roughness and morphology.

Surface organization (random and structured) for optimised Compatibility. Prevention of protein adsorption/cell adhesion (blood compatibility). Facilitation of protein/cell adhesion (organ cell adhesion). Low-cost production 2D or 3D architectures.

Controlled release (ionophoresis, encapsulation using micronozzle arrays, biosensors (nanofabric. membranes and electrodes).

Bio-artificial organs. Tissue engineering.

Health industrialists Medical professionals and institutions Patients

Environment

- Temperature, pH and solvent resistant materials. - Nanocomposites for gas and vapour separation - Membranes capable of working at close-to-zero driving forces.

Maximize resource utilization and minimize environmental impact. Robust membrane processes required. Integrated water treatment and reuse of wastewater/circulation streams in industry.

Industrial membrane processes, Resource recovery and recycling.

Cleaner industrial processes.

Industrialists Farmers Public services Citizens/Taxpayers

Energy

Highly ion conducting ceramic or hybrid materials - Nanostructured fuel cell membranes. - High temperature stable membrane materials for gas and vapour separation.

Fuel cell membranes for T=120-140 C (DMFC, DEFC, H2). Proton or oxygen ion conducting ceramics T=300-1000°C. Define channels for proton transport with simultaneous suppression of fuel loss. Stable nano-sized ceramic and metal structures and thin films/layers Minimise diffusion resistance (microfabrication).

Oxygen enrichment. Integrated hydrogen fuel cells and membrane microsystem. Replacement of energy intensive processes with energy efficient membrane processes.

Hydrogen economy. Efficient power production with CO2 capture.

Industrialists Public services Citizens/Taxpayers

Water

High flux polymeric materials – Self-cleaning materials – Bactericide functionalised materials – molecular and ion selective membranes.

Recovery of valuable/harmful products (molecular imprinting, absorbers, affinity membranes, tunable membranes). Water treatment/production. Selective removal of micro-pollutants.

Virus-free supply, Water reuse. Micro pollutant free water.

Industrialists Farmers Public services Citizens/Taxpayers

Food

Active membranes for catalysis or affinity separation - Biosensors - Intelligent packaging - Encapsulation and texturation.

Well-controlled enzymatic conversions, affinity separations. Online analysis (membrane based sensors, integration of micro-reactors and sensors).Structuring and protecting food (membrane emulsification, nanostructured precision membrane.). Packaging

Barrier technologies. Beverage filtration. Food and water purification by removal of trace contaminants.

Functional food processes.

Agro-food industrialists Citizens

Process Industry

Hydrophobic materials for contacting / distribution functions. Catalytic materials for reactors, Materials for molecular recognition and separations.

Process intensification (membrane reactors, micro-reactors, catalytic membranes, membrane based sensors).Green processes with lower mass intensities and higher output per unit raw material input.

Membrane contactors. Membrane separation combined with reaction and reactors.

Affinity separation. Molecular separators.

Industrialists

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Economic impact The European market for membrane separation systems is expected to see a significant level of growth over the coming decade. According to a published study (IPTS), membrane technologies are the most promising and are expected to grow significantly over the next decades. The ongoing evolution of membrane technology will allow greater flexibility in designing systems that function under a variety of operating conditions. The membranes’ market share is also expected to increase substantially, as new innovative products based on membrane sciences will provide the best available solution in different application areas. The European industry’s competitiveness depends on the efficiency of European research to innovate and supply new products to the market. NanoMemPro can play a significant role in a more competitive European membranes industry by reorganising the research in membranes and offering stronger links to industry to fasten the technology transfer of new methods and processes. The following table shows the main market applications addressed in NanoMemPro joint research activities and the estimated economic gains in terms of market values.

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High quality of life and lower citizen health costs Huge advances in medicine

Sustainable energy systems 150 294

Reduction of energy consumption, Reduction of air pollution and economic consequences

Food quality and safety 950 2090

Safer and more competititive products Lower public health costs

New production processes 750 1830

Reduction of wastes and of their cost treatment Reduction of production costs

Total 4400 MEuros 9212 MEuros

Spreading of excellence and knowledge management beyond the consortium The NanoMemPro Network has adopted a plan to extend the excellence and disseminate the knowledge in and out the Network. A high degree of internal dissemination and knowledge sharing will be obtained by reinforcing the electronic communication and by maintaining common knowledge bases. Frequent workshops and meetings will also contribute to improving communication. Three levels of external dissemination have been identified: towards the citizen (activity A15), the scientific community in Europe and third countries (activity A13), and the industrial world (activities A04 and A14). Different actions have been planned in order to reinforce citizens’ public awareness and favour the easy understanding of science. A permanent position will be created under the coordinator’s direct authority in order to coordinate communication with the citizen. The common strategy is to support the development of school science, engineering and technology education by offering specific science teaching modules, easy articles and awards for young people, and organizing school visits as well as popularisation events. Participation of citizen organisations in the Club of Interest (see Appendix A page 118) will reinforce the citizen awareness and participation in defining new research topics.

The scientific community will be informed on the Network’s activities via electronic newsletters and the European Membrane Society, a learned society that has been existing since 1982 and which organises different scientific and technological events at European level. New members will be associated through competitive calls aiming to address specific technical problems. The Network will also focus on strengthening communication with other Networks in order to exchange best practices in management and discuss scientific results. Particular attention will also be paid on the reinforcement of cooperation with third countries and international organisations. The industry and especially the SMEs is a particular target for advanced knowledge dissemination. NanoMemPro has created a Club of Interest that includes many industries interested in obtaining advanced knowledge in membranes and accessing fast technology transfer. This club (see description in Appendix A page 118) has already obtained the participation of many companies and particularly of SMEs from membrane manufacturing industries and end users in practically all the sectors. Members will have access to advanced scientific and technological information as well as to a network of experts for resolving problems needing a specific know-how. The transfer of knowledge will be carried out by confidential newsletters, dedicated workshops, and direct participation in research

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projects under particular conditions. The transfer of knowledge will be a two way process. Knowledge transfer will be directed to SMEs through agreement with the European Business and Innovation Centres Network (EBN) that provides access to over 230 members (Incubators and Business Resource Centres). The IPRs will be defined by the IPUDC Committee presented in § 8.1. Industry will also transfer knowledge to researchers through specific orientation studies or market studies allowing so an effective public/private cooperation. The access to the European Membrane Laboratorium as an innovation marketplace and initiatives like the organisation of technology transfer fairs will complete an integrative approach for knowledge transfer. Dissemination activities efficiency will be measured by specific indicators and their reinforcement will be assessed constantly. Training and education to improve or develop new skills and/or expertise Sciences, and more particularly those concerning membranes, are getting more and more complex because of the high number of scientific and technological areas that students and researchers have to integrate as soon as possible in order to generate new knowledge. In addition, students discover membrane sciences at a later stage in their education. The access to infrastructures and experimental facilities is often made possible during PhD studies only. As a result of this, young students are often less interested in membrane science and technology and devoid of initial knowledge in this field, making it therefore more difficult to create multidisciplinary skills and expertise able to innovate in membrane technology. The NanoMemPro Network of Excellence will adopt an integrated approach in the education of students and training of researchers and staffs with a view to improving the level of research in Europe and increasing Excellence. Special courses on membrane science and technology will be designed by a NanoMemPro committee. The courses will be integrated in education systems, first as experimental courses and after validation, in the 13 research and training organisations located in different countries. This action is expected to stimulate young researchers’ motivation for membrane sciences. One can envisage the implementation of a specific Master Degree, dedicated on the specific topics of the Network and built by associating different modules provided by the core participating institutions. Through applications to specific Calls of Proposals of GD Education and Culture (such as Erasmus Mundus or E-learning programmes) extra means and supports could be found to reinforce this initiative.

A European PhD graduate study will also be implemented. PhD doctoral students will carry out experiments and learn experimental methods in at least three European countries involved in the Network. This action will allow improving the excellence of European researchers. More actions like summer schools on specific subjects and workshops will also be organised. Other actions like the management of talents or specific awards and various incentives should be taken by the Network as described in section "Spread of excellence activities". Network leaders and project managers will also be able to participate in Management training sessions in order to improve researchers’ management skills. To facilitate access and to enhance attraction of the trainings, the NanoMemPro Network of excellence will take care of raising and gathering some funds (different from the current EC grant for integration) that could be distributed as research grants to young European and foreigner candidates. Among them, as a contribution to the gender action plan, women charged with children could have special grants. Community societal objectives Quality of life As specified under FP6, EU’s major needs for new knowledge concern areas which will focus on improving health care, making environment cleaner, supplying clean water and food, improving transportation and increasing the sustainability of our society. Membrane research has the potential to develop the knowledge in all these areas. New membranes and materials may play a decisive role in developing processes that rationalise the use of energy resources, minimise emissions to the environment, intensify the use of renewable resources, and lead to the design and production of new products.

Health Membrane research can greatly contribute to developing new products relevant to the human health, such as: bio-artificial organs, new drugs with a higher purity (enantiomeric purification) and effective delivery systems, biosensors for monitoring of biological processes; extracorporal organ support based on membrane technology involves blood oxygenation for replacement of lung function during cardiopulmonary bypass, and haemodialysis or hemofiltration for the treatment of end stage renal disease and acute liver failure. Membrane technology is also a promising tool to open new fields of applications in medicine such as biohybrid organs. Biohybrid organs resemble a combination of immobilized organ cells with a suitable carrier, which in most cases is a polymer membrane in some sort of bioreactor. Another important impact in terms of public health is the development of more efficient processes for monitoring air and treating drinking water supplies. Membrane processes like microfiltration, ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis

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are already a key technology for the production of clean drinking water. For removal of micro-pollutants from drinking water supplies, membrane processes have shown an outstanding potential and can be a key issue in Europe and in other regions of the world. The so-called membrane fouling, which is an adsorption of components on the membrane surface leading to a reduction of the water flux is a problem still unsolved. The Network will develop “self-cleaning” surfaces able to change their hydrophilic/hydrophobic character or nano-patterned surfaces with a low adhesion of pollutants. NanoMemPro aims at contributing towards the development of membranes with improved biocompatibility and permeability characteristics. The control of protein adsorption and thus of biocompatibility and function is crucial for biomedical membrane applications. This will involve different technologies, such as controlled surface roughness and morphology in nm-scale, controlled 2D- and 3D-surface architecture in nm- and µm-scale, molecular imprinting, and surface activation/functionalization in a random and organized way. In the field of controlled release of medical drugs, the Network will contribute to developing stimuli sensitive blockcopolymers, whose morphology and permeability vary according to the temperature and pH.

Safety The NanoMemPro Network will improve food safety, through the development of membrane processes that contribute to designing new food products with improved quality (functional food, nutraceuticals) and with a better chemical and microbiological control. Improved food production processes, and better packaging films for keeping food fresh would make consumption of today’s over-packaged foods inherently safer. A more effective monitoring of the environmental conditions, and the implementation of cleaner production processes would definitely allow increasing environmental safety.

Employment and working conditions The impact on Employment may be quite significant. Indeed, new membrane materials and processes will contribute to developing new technologies and processes that will enhance the European industry’s competitiveness.

Membrane processes will have a significant impact on energy production and distribution (fuel cells), on the chemical and petrochemical industries (greener processes), on the pharmaceutical and biomedical industry (high-purity drugs, bio-compatible products), on the food industry (new products and food safety) and finally on environmental monitoring and protection (wastewaters, drinking water, air quality).

The NanoMemPro Network will greatly contribute to developing cleaner production conditions, avoiding thus the intensive use of energy and replacing the use of traditional polluting solvents by cleaner and safer separation methods. Air clean separation membranes will also provide a healthy indoor work environment and protect people from air pollution, allergies, bacteria etc… improving so the quality of work. The Network will also work on developing solvent free modes of producing membranes thus making such processes healthier and safer.

Environment Membrane technology is already playing a key role in the purification of waste water and air streams and in valuable chemicals recycling. However, the development of more selective polymeric membranes has apparently come to a certain limit. Nanostructured materials, especially nanocomposites consisting of inorganic/organic hybrid materials will give rise to a new field of applications. So far, unmatched transport properties and selectivity have been observed with this new class of materials. One example is the in-situ preparation of inorganic nanoparticles or inorganic nanostructured Networks in glassy and rubbery polymers. The NanoMemPro Network will contribute to developing these materials to separate gaseous from liquid mixtures. A significant increase in selectivity for the separation of gas mixtures like methane/butane, carbon dioxide/air or carbon dioxide/methane can be foreseen. The recovery and recycling of harmful organic components from industrial waste and process streams will become more effective with these new separation materials.

Energy As regards “Energy”, The NanoMemPro Network will contribute to developing advanced fuel cell membranes. Focus will be placed on the development of membranes for the Direct Methanol Fuel Cell (DMFC) and high performance membranes, which can be operated in the temperature range 110 to 180°C. Commercial polymers like polyetherketones or polyphenylensulfones will be functionalised and new proton-conducting polymers will be synthesised. Creation of nanostructured materials with proton pathways containing chained proton acceptors is one research issue. Another topic is the preparation of inorganic nanoparticles and networks within the polymeric matrix. The objective is first to reduce methanol permeability and then to increase proton conductivity by including inorganic proton conductors like the heteropolyacids. Another important point is the contribution to the development of high temperature membranes for Oxygen, Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide separation, which can be integrated in future energy production plants with CO2 capture.

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5.1 Contributions to standards The NanoMemPro Network will provide the harmonisation of the characterisation methods of membrane function as well as of the performance of control tests in the same field. Through the activities and WP of the JPR, the partnership will progressively set up the common terminology, protocols, methods and measures in order to enhance its integration. This NanoMemPro shared standards will be presented as a reference at the European level, and thus will foster harmonisation and standardization. Innovation in membranes may also provide inputs in water quality, food safety processes and environmental values standards of different production units. It can also provide significant reduction of effluent and gas emissions and then contribute to improving pollution standards. A strong collaboration with CEN (European committee for standardization) will be established in order to better coordinate the harmonisation at European level. New membrane technology is emerging as a powerful technique for various applications. It is therefore important to be able to understand and compare the properties of these membranes. One of the objectives could be to define a common language between all key players in the membrane field: researchers, manufacturers and end-users. NanoMemPro will investigate the new characterisation methods and will propose new techniques and guidelines for harmonized methodologies. The results should save time and money in product testing against standard specifications, or in optimising the production processes. Hence, it is essential to complement the characterisation methodologies for the new membranes and to submit the findings to the relevant international standardisation bodies (CEN, IUPAC) in the field. To this purpose, the Network will participate in this standardisation effort at an international level and will continue past actions such as the work done by the CHARMME Network (SMT4-CT98-7518). NanoMemPro will therefore contribute to the harmonisation of the single market in the field of membranes, which is necessary to ensure a high level of quality and competitiveness. As far as consumers and citizens are concerned, this regulation effort will provide protection and safety and encourage reliability in product quality. As for industrialists, such European regulations must provide a common technical language and a wider access to market. 5.2 Contribution to policy developments The European Directive on Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control EC96/61 encourages the use of Best Available Technology “BAT”. Under this policy, the use of membrane-based techniques such as those applicable to effluent treatment, above, should constitute a key part of the EU’s recommendations. The NoE also contributes to strengthening the EU policy regarding the environment (Environment 2010) and a sustainable development, with a direct impact of its technological outputs on a better quality of life, high protection of public health and a clean environment. NanoMemPro will significantly support the European policy for food safety (White Paper COM 1999 719 final) by developing new safer methods for food production and water quality. Finally, it contributes to the competitiveness policy of the EU industry (COM 2002 714 final), through the development of less energy-intensive processes and the design and production of high-added value products for the future. It provides an important input into policy for the European Research Area construction (COM 2000 6) by creating a European Membrane Technology Platform and introducing a new dimension in membrane area, a key for the EU industry and the citizen needs technology. The recent communication (30.4.03, COM 2003 226 final) concerning the European action plan for investing in research recommends the creation of technological platforms as an important mechanism to bring together all interested stakeholders with a view to developing a long-term vision and implementing this vision in important technologies. NanoMemPro objective is to set up a European Membrane Technology Platform able to address major technological, economic and societal challenges. It will provide a means to foster effective public-private partnerships involving public research, industry, incubators, users, regulatory authorities and policy makers. It can also address both the technical and non technical barriers as well as the requirements for the optimal development, deployment and use of technologies such as regulations, standards, financial aspects, social acceptance, skills and training needs while taking into account the relevant Community policies. 5.3 Risk assessment and related communication strategy See also § 6.7 “Raising public participation and awareness” and § 7 “Quality of integration and performance indicators”.

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6. OUTLINE JOINT PROGRAMME OF ACTIVITIES (JPA) FOR THE FULL

DURATION OF THE PROJECT The JPA is constituted of different type of activities: the Integrating Activities, the Jointly Executed Research Activities, the Spreading of Excellence Activities and the Management Activities. In order to achieve its ambitious objectives, the NanoMemPro Network has implemented a coherent JPA as illustrated in Figure 6 below.

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More precisely the activities that have been planned for the five years are the following: • 6 integrating activities: which main objectives are to create the optimal conditions for a lasting integration of

13 European organisations and their resources (people and equipment). - A01: Initiate a European Laboratorium in the field of membrane technology in order to share advanced

scientific and technological knowledge among all European scientists in the field, and to provide the necessary existing tools and special equipment all over the European Union in order to optimise research activities.

- A02: Adapt the integrated organisations in order to make the integration durable, continue sharing the partners’ tools and define a common strategy that will lead research in Europe.

- A03: Define a concrete and genuine plan to foster and allow researchers mobility across Europe. - A04: Involve the Club of Interest members in the Network activities through a bi-directional exchange of

information and mutual benefits to both parties.

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- A05: Create a European Economic Interest Grouping that will run the management of the NoE and will increase the visibility of NanoMemPro cooperative research at the European level.

- A06: Set up a European Technology Platform that will integrate the tools, facilitate and automate their use, develop new facilities when necessary. This platform will also include a specific tool dedicated to the improvement of the network financial autonomy in order to ensure its durability.

• 5 research activities which surround the integration part, whose main objective is first to investigate, understand and implement new methods and technologies for membrane development, and then to assess them in actual applications. The following action plan will be performed: - A07 and A08: These research activities aim at establishing a tight connection between the “nanoscale

materials” and the “membrane processes” by developing new monitoring tools. - A09 and A10: These research activities will relate the “molecular scale” to the “nanoscale materials” by

developing computer-aided techniques to guide, optimise and scale up new membrane preparation processes.

- A11: This activity will assess the link between “membrane processes” and “social demands” by studying selected applications for sustainable development. Issues concerned with technology acceptance and citizens’ awareness are addressed in the dissemination activities.

• 4 activities for spreading excellence which interconnect to the different research and integration activities. Their main purpose is to establish training and dissemination actions inside the network and outside to all the interested actors; more specifically, these 4 activities are: - A12: Allow the dissemination of knowledge within the Network and the membrane community through a

joint programme for training and education. - A13: Disseminate the results in scientific teams beyond the Network and particularly in third countries.

Reinforce also cross-linking with other NoE in similar areas. - A14: Exploit the results by implementing concrete actions to transfer them to industry, in particular through

the Club of Interest and the European Business and Innovation Centre Network (EBN). - A15: Communicate the objectives and establish a thorough and fruitful dialogue with citizens and

consumers in order to facilitate technology acceptance. • 3 management activities which provide a solid and coherent framework for the performance of the other

activities: integration, research and dissemination. The work programme of each activity will run coherently with progress and achievements of other levels of management. The Network co-ordinator will rely on the implemented management system and processes throughout the project, and will manage the interface between the different management modules.

The objectives are: - A16: Define the decision-making rules and the NanoMemPro strategic management needed for running the

Network. - A17: Design, develop and implement a management system that will integrate the totality of activities. - A18: Perform the operational management of each activity ant its workpackages and monitor progress.

6.A Activities 6.1 Integrating activities Activity A01 – Towards a European Membrane Laboratorium (Coordinator SINTEF) The Joint Programme of Activities relies on the integration of resources available in the Network. The first activity will thus initiate a European Laboratorium in the field of membranes that will permit to reach the stated objectives. This Laboratorium is necessary to (i) overcome the fragmentation that currently exists in the research communities concerned with different aspects of membranes, (ii) create the scales of research input necessary to exploit the new opportunities, and (iii) ensure that all the competencies required to make the most of new membrane opportunities are available and finally to find solutions for sustainable development. The creation of a Membrane Laboratorium will instigate the shared use of knowledge and facilities, and ensure a durable integration. It will encompass the integration of membrane resources, technologies, computing resources and experimental tools. To do so, it will rely on the progressive installation of a European Membrane Technology Platform that will connect the various tools, providing common access and interfaces to the facilities, allowing remote on-line operations by the users. This integration process is an imperative requirement for the success of the Joint Research Activities (A06, A07, A08, A09 and A10). Success of the membrane Laboratorium will be measured by appropriate indicators such as the number of hours spent using common resources.

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WP01.1 Integrate knowledge management (Coordinator SINTEF) One of the most important objectives of this Network of Excellence is the sharing of scientific and technical information. The NanoMemPro Network will set up a work group that will concentrate on coordinating the knowledge management activities. To do so, it will: • Define a policy for integrated knowledge management, with a view to having the whole Network knowledge

accessible to all its members. • Establish a common database including all relevant scientific information. The contents will be updated

regularly. This information can be shared on a common Network data server and can be accessible to other scientific communities through paid subscriptions in order to maintain this service. Create standard database formats that will facilitate exchange of membrane characterisation and filtration data or material properties.

• Coordinate common publications. A “knowledge database” can be set up with publications, documented procedures, strategies, research proposals and regular research reports. Network members could have access to this database via, for example, the extranet described in the following section. It would be managed by each Activity manager.

• Establish in collaboration with the IPUDC committee a survey of international patents in membranes. • Intra-Network communication that will involve free and direct exchange of information, resources, results and

research strategies. Of particular importance will be regular meetings between scientists of different disciplines to exchange concepts and results that otherwise would not have been exchanged.

• Organise joint training courses, studies, workshops, high-level conferences given by famous senior scientists (from Europe or abroad).

WP01.2 Share and reinforce tools and facilities (Coordinator CNRS) The aim of NanoMemPro is to share the major research infrastructures and tools identified as important. This strategy aims to reduce equipment costs and coordinate new acquisitions in an optimum way for the Network. • Network organisations will offer partners a privileged access to the relevant equipment, services and

infrastructures available in the different places. This will be done by using existing mechanisms (e.g. electronic communication for on-line secure data transfer) and providing specialised staff in charge of the heavy facilities (e.g. X-Ray Diffraction Analysis, HR-TEM, AFM, HRFS, permeation testing).

• MET and Techno-Membranes companies participating in the Club of Interest will share their facilities of industrial scale tests with other Network members. These testing facilities will allow transferring good ideas down from the laboratory level onto the industry level. Research application can be taken and packaged so that it is beneficial for the industrial environment, including meeting regulations and rules requirements. MET will also offer controlled access to pilot-trial facilities, subject to appropriate confidentiality agreements.

• Models, calculation tools and other software, useful for membrane research, developed by different partners can be made available on a shared secure portal.

• Standardised procedures, so that results can be easily interpreted and repeated by all Network members working on a specific project will be developed. In this case, automated filtration or characterisation routines will be written. This effort is necessary to harmonize working methods and provide a common language in membrane scientific community.

Activity A02 – Consolidation of the integrated organisations (Coordinator CNRS) WP02.1 Adaptation of organisation activities (Coordinator CNRS) The Network organisations will make efforts to reshape their organisation and their activities in order to agree with the common Network activities. Each participating institution will have to agree clearly and durably with the financial, managerial and strategic details of the aimed virtual Integrated Membrane Laboratory. This transformation can be performed by: • Defining new common key research items to carry out considering the multidisciplinary and multisectorial

approach of membrane sciences. • Redirecting the on-going research project of the different organisations in order to correspond to a common

road map defined by the Network after considering the market and people needs. • Approving the opening of organisation into their facilities to other Network members. • Approving access to permanent positions by improving information and suppressing barriers (languages,

distances etc). • Encouraging nationally-funded research projects related to membranes to develop links with the Network

activities. • Joint agreement to try and reproduce results in several labs (that is common in the physics research community).

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A quality indicator has been defined in order to follow the efforts in organisation adaptation of NoE members.

WP02.2 Reinforce electronic communication and networking (Coordinator UTwente) The consortium will use an extranet-based secure collaborative tool to ensure effective and secured communication. The tool will be accessible, under secured access control, to the project manager, the partners and will enable the scientific officer to remain in constant contact with the project. This extranet tool will also provide a controlled access of users to the European Membrane Laboratorium and NoE knowledge databases (activity A01), and will thus interface with the European Membrane Technology Platform (activity A06). The collaborative tool includes mainly the following modules: • General information module. This module will provide general information on the project as well as technical

objectives regarding the initial partners’ cost statement. • Secure message exchange module between partners. All partners will have access to this module. Meeting

preparation, deliverables working, and discussion groups can be realised through this module. • Secure exchange document module. The module allows, in a controlled and secure environment, publishing

meeting minutes, technical reports, consolidated annual reports and other useful documents. In addition, capabilities for e-learning will be implemented in connection with activity A12; capabilities for remote control/command/analysis of experiments will be developed in connection with activity A06.

Activity A03 – Plan for staff mobility and work positions (WP03) (Coordinator CNRS) The Network strategy aims at: • Making the Network more attractive for researchers. This includes: retaining researchers in Europe, attracting

third country researchers to the EU and encouraging researchers based outside the EU to return. • Enhancing the trans-national mobility of researchers and strengthening the European dimension of research

careers. The Network will encourage the inclusion of a minimum ratio of foreign researchers in each Network member, as well as a proper gender balance.

• Stimulating increased mobility between academia and industry and a better exploitation of research results.

The Network will take actions aiming at improving the mobile researchers’ environment: • Improve information about mobility: The Network will offer a comprehensive Internet site for EU and foreign

researchers, detailing national regulations and procedures, providing practical information and listing job vacancies as well as funding opportunities especially within the framework of the Network. The objective of NanoMemPro is to contribute to a new European Labour Market for membrane technology and facilitate the mobility of researchers in Europe.

• Improve the provision of practical assistance to researchers: A Membrane Mobility Centre will be created to assist researchers in dealing with legal and administrative matters and provide training facilities. The Mobility Centre will also provide practical information on accommodation, day-care or education for children and advise on job opportunities for the accompanying partner.

• Reinforce the mobility framework: The Network will encourage, where appropriate, the organisation of inter-directorial meetings on current obstacles of direct concern to develop integrated strategies for the mobility of researchers. The decisions will be applied to the Network and communicated to the EU. The Network will exchange best practices with other NoEs, benchmark mobility mechanisms in the EU with the purpose of improvement, implement actions to attract, retain and develop talents in membrane sciences.

• Draw up a quality charter for reception of foreign researchers: It will guarantee a minimum level of assistance to foreign researchers from the host organisation involved and encourage them to take on more responsibility for their foreign staff and visiting researchers. The assistance will include the integration into the working and social environment of the host country.

Activity A04 – Integrate the Club of Interest in the NoE framework (WP04) (Coordinator Imperial)

The Club of Interest is a dynamic element related to NanoMemPro, which has a great potential of resources and means to support the continuation of NoE activities (integration, research, excellence). It represents the image of the market (industry) and citizen’s needs (society) that should reflect the quality of NanoMemPro outputs. The objective of this activity is to make the collaboration between NanoMemPro and the Club of Interest effective by: • Enabling members to carry out studies/tests related to membrane technologies. • Analysing jointly the market and the society needs. • Defining and steering research activities.

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• Exploiting innovative results under agreement with the consortium. • Financing Consortium research activities of interest. • Facilitating Club of Interest interaction with recognized experts. • Developping mutual plans for durable financing of the Network activity. The contents of the activity will be defined by the Network Executive Committee after consulting the representatives of the Club of Interest, to decide on how the work will be performed by the members.

Activity A05 – Create a legal entity (WP05) (Coordinator CNRS)

• NanoMemPro’s successful lasting integration is linked with a strong and durable structure able to efficiently manage the Network activities and to quickly exploit the innovative results and technologies produced by the NoE. This can only be achieved under the umbrella of a legal entity. As a first step, the creation of a Non Profit Organization under the Belgium Law (AISBL) is privileged because it is flexible, versatile and non-restricting for the partners institutions. This legal entity, which will be referred to as the “Membrane House” will facilitate a better pooling of resources, activities and skills by presenting a stable and reliable organisation: it will be a key element for a long lasting integration of NanoMemPro activities.

• The consortium will discuss and evaluate the potential of such a structure, will identify all the needs of the Network and the issues relevant to each participant organisation. Then, considering all these elements, the consortium will define the rules in order to establish the legal status of the entity.

Activity A06 – Set up a European Membrane Technology Platform (Coordinator IBET)

The goal of this activity is to identify and better answer the current needs and challenges in Europe. This will be done notably by organising and promoting long-term innovation, as well as adapting and implementing technologies. As a whole this activity will enhance the coherence of the European market in the Membrane domain.

WP06.1 – Increase financial autonomy and durability (Coordinator CNRS) In order to promote public/private partnerships of European dimension and to develop its autonomy, the NanoMemPro Network of Excellence wants to set up a specific unit dedicated to these goals. The objectives are to design and implement a tool dedicated to the improvement of the network financial autonomy in order to contribute to its long term durability. Such a tool could become an affiliate of the legal entity created by the network. Inserted in the Network strategy designed by the Governing Board, it will be implemented coherently with the initiatives of the Club of interest, and will benefit of inputs from the Scientific Council and the Club of Expertise. This tool will primarily identify all the public/private financing possibilities to develop excellence research activities, propose financial engineering schemes, and guide partnerships from fundamental research to industrial applications.

In relation with WP04, WP06.2 and WP14 an ambitious process of reinforcing the CoI to build up a Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) with the associated Business Plan (BP), intended to give the main direction and to agregate all the Network activities and capacities, constitute a high priority after the first year of the project. By this way extra financial support should be obtained from industry as well as from various regional, national and international institutions.

WP06.2 – Develop high added value technological services (Coordinator IBET) In order to provide a European research framework to carry out various actions concerning education, research and technological progress, the Network will set up common tools for the European Membrane Technology Platform. Thus EMTP: • Will organize research facilities, equipment, databases and software tools for common use by partners, and will

permit their remote access and use through electronic networking. • Will coordinate the development at partners’ research labs or in members’ companies of the necessary platform

pilot-plants, modules and tools for tests and calculation. • Will become the privileged instrument of action and spreading of excellence of the NanoMemPro Network. • Will develop process control and automation software, tools for process simulation, new equipment for

standardisation of characterisation procedures (pore structure…) of membranes and membrane performance, in particular for monitoring membranes during process operation.

• Will extend networking capabilities, adapt equipment, like for example the membrane formulation and characterisation equipment, to make multiple uses possible.

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• Will very largely take part into knowledge management, technology transfer and manufacturing. A practical approach for developing the EMTP will be adopted, by reinforcing the existing heavy tools and by searching funds to develop new instruments as necessary. Largely opened towards societial demands, this platform should constitute the very powerful and privileged instrument on which the membrane knowledge-based industry (that Europe intends to develop in the field of membrane technologies) could rest. It should thus help manufacturing, as well as increasing employment and production of goods. 6.2 Programme for jointly executed research activities Joint research projects The NanoMemPro Network has developed a plan for a joint programme of research activities based on the structure presented in Figure 7. This Figure illustrates the membrane function and the existing relationship between the nanoscale and the macroscale levels as regards properties and performances. The objective of this Network is to create a common scientific basis for the new task force in membranes. To that end, the molecular and the nanoscale structure and properties of knowledge-based materials will be linked to the process/system development and the social needs with great impact on the quality of life and European competitiveness. Six common actions have been structured around the central concept of “membrane function” in order to group together the four working areas shown in Figure 7.

These activities are presented hereafter two by two.

Two main research actions of NanoMemPro (A07 and A08) will contribute to maintaining a permanent and tight connection between the nanoscale material scale and the processes and systems working areas:

Activity A07 – Characterisation of membrane function (WP07) (Coordinator UNIZAR) Activity A08 – Modelling and simulation of membrane performance (WP08) (Coordinator FORTH/ICE-HT)

The objective will be to associate partners with a view to developing new monitoring tools to better approach and control “membrane function” (separation, reaction…). This function, which starts when set in working conditions and disappears when processes are stopped, depends on material properties and working conditions. Today, the lack of knowledge of these functions with macro- and mesoporous materials constitutes one of the main impediments to the development of membrane technologies. A major advantage of using materials with well-known nanoscale properties will be to ease and make their prevision and control more reliable from analysing molecular properties. Both actions are multidisciplinary, and for effectiveness reasons they must be approached in an integrated way by the involved partners, with as a final objective to create “une Ecole de Pensée” (Think tank) around them. “Molecular scale”, the third working area, is related to the “Nanoscale materials” by two other common actions (A09 and A10) called respectively:

Activity A09– Synthesis optimisation of membrane material (WP09) (Coordinator GKSS)

Figure 7: Joint research approach of NanoMemPro

-On-line fast and non destructivecharacterisation of membrane function

Modeling for simulation, optimisation and control of performance and properties

MOLECULAR SCALE

NANOSCALE MATERIAL

SOCIAL DEMANDS

PROCESSES & SYSTEMS

Optimisation of synthesis through a hierarchical approach and a computer simulation guidance

Back-design of new materials and mass production processes

Well-being & Sustainability

Citizens' awareness and technology

acceptance

NANOSCALE PROPERTIES MACROSCALE APPLICATIONS

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Activity A10 – Back-design and mass production of membrane material (WP10) (Coordinator ITM-CNR)

The future of membrane technologies obeys to original design and synthesis methods of new materials based on a hierarchical approach. A much better efficiency of membrane systems is expected through the concept of continuum in the fabrication methods, from the molecular to the macro-scale level via the intermediate nanoscale. Particularly a good control of fabrication from molecular to nanoscale levels will guarantee large area-to-volume ratio and significant surface roughness, which will induce high transfer rate and reactivity thus leading to more efficiency. Integrated systems allowing rapid design implementation and easier scale up will be looked after. This new synthesis and integration approach will benefit from computational guidance in the simulation of fabrication processes. Another original point is that membrane materials will be “back-designed”, i.e. starting from process requirements, especially in these new fields where there does not exist yet specific barriers (as an example for contactor and reactor systems). Finally, the processes and systems are linked to the “social demands” with two other NanoMemPro actions, respectively: Activity 11 and Activity 15. Issues on Citizens’ awareness and technology acceptance that are addressed in the activity A15.

Activity A11 – Applications for well-being and sustainability (Coordinator UTwente) Concerning the applications for well-being and sustainable development the project will be focused on four main application areas as follows: From a broad point of view these activities should be better focussed with the BP / SRA.

WP11.1 New production processes: system approach (Coordinator Imperial) Different kind of new processes leading to intensification, environment protection, membranes mass production will be investigated: • For many industrial applications, membrane separation is already the best available technology to purify

products and recycle reactants and solvents from waste liquid streams and CO2 emissions. • Membrane reactors have already proved to be an intrinsically safer technology compared to conventional

reactors, regarding hazardous processes. • The processing of molecular information by controlled interactions allows the controlled self-organization of

different adaptative/ evolutive and functional architectures. The mass production of membrane materials with a well-controlled nanostructure will be examined.

WP11.2 Food quality: safer production methods (Coordinator ITM-CNR) Activities related to food quality and safety should be considered in a Network of Excellence on membranes insofar as this area is of a prime importance for European citizens’ health and well-being. The specific actions targeted require the development of new membranes based on the use of materials with appropriate nanoscale properties. The objective is also to benefit from different approaches of manufacturing problems in order to promote successful technology transfers. We shall mention in this way: • Packaging. • The preparation of nutraceutical and functional food ingredients from a large variety of agricultural resources. • Understanding and control of the relationship between food texture perception and food structure. • Reduction of effluent emission and energy consumption.

WP11.3 Sustainable energy systems (Coordinator SINTEF) Research on security and diversification of energy supply is becoming increasingly important, particularly as regards the role it plays in combating air pollution and subsequent climate change, as well as in supporting energy market liberalization, regional development and cohesion. A number of technological objectives have been identified in which membranes constitute a key part of the whole process: • High performance fuel cell membranes, which can be operated between 110 and 180°C. • Membrane reactors for cost effective H2 production from fossil fuels and biomass. • Nanophased ceramic ion conductive membranes (H2, O2) at low temperature (500-700°C) SOFC. • Polymer and hybrid membranes for organic and hybrid photovoltaic devices. • Carbon dioxide capture from waste gases and recycling in supercritical extraction processes.

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WP11.4 Life support and health (Coordinator UTwente) Fallout of this research can be highly beneficial to life support and health in European countries. • Membranes are widely applied in biomedical and biotechnological applications. Extracorporal organ support

based on membrane technology involves blood oxygenation, haemodialysis or hemofiltration. • Membranes are also applied in dentistry as guiding scaffolds for tissue regeneration or as covers for deep skin

burns. Membrane technology is also a promising tool to open new fields of applications in medicine such as the biohybrid organs (a combination of immobilised organ cells with a suitable carrier, which is in most cases a polymer membrane in some sort of bioreactor).

• Membranes are also important in other biomedical applications such as the controlled drug release, or as part of very specific biosensors and actuators.

• Combinatorial nanomembrane systems should represent a new and effective solution for the controlled and synchronised translocation (memb. transport) and transduction (sensors) events.

6.3 Activities to spread excellence Activity A12 – Joint training and education programme (WP12) (Coordinator DTU) The aim of this activity is to allow the dissemination of knowledge within the Network and the membrane community. A complete action plan will be created in order to favour access to high level training of researchers and staffs. Some types of actions are given below: • Participation in an exchange programme for staff and lab researchers (trainings on membrane techniques). • Workshops for transfer of scientific, technical and professionnal skills (open to the Club of Interest). • Training mobility by the participation in mobility through the Marie Curie programme. • E-learning through electronic support trainings. • Research Excellence Award to encourage student talents. • Creation of a European co-advised PhD dedicated to membranes. • Creation of a specific delocalised Master Degree. • Access to temporary positions abroad for researchers, senior researchers and invited professors. • Personnel exchange between industry – academia.

Activity A13 – Dissemination of results to scientific community (Coordinator ICTP) WP13.1 Knowledge transfer and international cooperation (Coordinator ICTP) The Network will transfer knowledge to the scientific community, keep relationships with third countries open and accept these countries for membership. This decision is supported by different actions: • Organisation of workshops and colloquia on the Network’s research subjects with the greatest possible

international visibility. • Reinforce exchanges and collaborations with countries from Eastern Europe. • Promote international collaborations with developing countries as well as with the US and Japan.

Implementation of subgroups specifically in charge of given tasks such as training courses, electronic communication, workshops..., or made up of members who according to their geographical position, membership of a particular cultural zone..., will have to manage the opening of the Network to particular geographical areas - Southern America, Mediterranean Countries, New States, Russia, USA, ASEAN countries-.

• The Network will give non-EU researcher access to research training and employment positions. • Workshops on specific techniques can be held at expert sites, attendance paid for from Network funds.

WP13.2 Cross-linking with other Programmes or Institutions (Coordinator CNRS) • Some scientific objectives of the NanoMemPro NoE are not specific to a sole topic in priority NMP. For

example, applications for sustainable development are related with other European themes such as sustainability and environment. Therefore NanoMemPro will establish connections with concerned projects and institutions in other domains that may involve similar technologies or strategies.

• The Network will identify and contact the relevant ongoing projects in the field of membranes, thus could prepare a directory of available resources and tools to complete NanoMemPro European Membrane Technology Platform.

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• Setting up a Club of Expertise that would gather outstanding scientific personalities of Institutions which do not belong to the Network. This should be a privileged way to reinforce NanoMemPro capabilities without weighing down its management by increasing the number of partners.

• Workshops specially focused on the thematic priority of the NoE. Invitations of external speakers from EU or other countries participating in related topics through other projects or institutions activities.

• Workshops in order to identify Best practices in management and technology transfer. Case studies can be developed as a “teaching” tool. Use of electronic networking for sharing knowledge will expand the possibilities.

Activity A14 – Technology transfer to industry (WP14) (Coordinator Vito) • A common technological website will be planned to foster marketplaces for dissemination among

stakeholders and work out a long-term strategy plan for specific technologies involving major economic or societal challenges. This website will ensure synergy among partners, public authorities, users, industry, consumers viewed as places where research and technology transfer are closely linked. The website will be implemented as part of the European membrane Laboratorium.

• Technology transfer Fairs in European membrane technologies: the objective of this Business Fair is to group together organisations (industrial users, consultants, other research organisations, public services) that are concerned with the sustainability of membrane technology solutions in and out of Europe. The events can be financed partially by regions interested in promoting their dynamism and by sponsors. The outcome should be the initiation of new collaborations for the purpose of technology transfer.

• The collaboration with EBN Network will offer strong additional support for technology transfer, in particular through the direct connection to European incubators and business centres.

• Industrial laboratories will host trials and/or organise visits for interested researchers to industrial facilities. This initiative should provide support for technology transfer through offering concrete infrastructures on which a new technology can be demonstrated and evaluated.

• The establishment of mechanisms related to the concept of “Leading Technology Institutes”, based on the Dutch model will facilitate special SME/Institutions collaboration. LTIs are aimed at long term-research with emphasis on the fast transfer of knowledge into innovative products and services.

Activity A15 – NoE Communication plan to the Citizen

The Network will elaborate a communication plan that implements the necessary communication action (calendar, targets, budget, exhibitions…). The objective will be to inform the public about the aims, developments and impacts of the Network activities. Typical actions will comprise press releases, the public website and the Network brochure.

WP15.1 Consumers’ concerns and regulations (Coordinator IBET) It is essential that the consumer is a fully recognised stakeholder and that its concerns are taken into account in the Network research activities on membranes development and their applications. NanoMemPro will facilitate the consumer dialogue at the European level in order to enable people with different cultures and background to exchange their viewpoints and for the Network to identify their expectations, particularly regarding well-being and sustainable development. The purpose will be to try to respond to their requests or at least to find reasonable directions for the future activities and orientations. Public consultations will precise the use of membranes in applications for well-being and sustainable development such as energy systems, life support, food quality and new production processes. Dedicated procedures could be implemented to foster the dialogue between scientific experts and consumers, to keep the public informed about the Network’s activities that concern them, and to anticipate new expectations. Finally, NanoMemPro will take care of existing norms and regulations applicable to membranes, could participate to standardisation groups that are relevant to its activities, and could undertake actions to present Network contributions to specific groups at the European or international level.

WP15.2 Strengthening Citizens’ awareness in science (Coordinator LUT) The Network will support actively the EU’s “Science and Society” programme in order to stimulate the attractiveness of science, Engineering and Technology related to membranes. • Dissemination of information to reinforce citizens’ public awareness and facilitate the understanding of Science.

The specific means of communication already existing at partner sites will have to be put in synergy with the new activities thus generated.

• All members will strengthen their commitment at regional and European level to support the development of school science, engineering and technology education.

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• The Network will test the introduction of Creative Science Teaching modules into the formal training period of primary pilot schools.

• School students could visit Network partners’ labs. Secondary school students in their final year could spend a week and gain work experience. Not only would students be involved but also their families.

• Hosting open days, or providing high school students with work experience. Access to students can also be co-ordinated with existing exchanges.

6.4 Consortium Management activities The primary deliverable of NanoMemPro NoE is to integrate European Research through the implementation of the Joint Programme of Activities (JPA=JPI+JPR+JPS+Management). To answer this requirement the Network aims at implementing a strong and coherent Excellence-oriented management system to stimulate sustainable integration of research activities. The management system is split into three levels: strategic management, integrative management and management of activities. This management system has been designed and set up within the first 6 months of NanoMemPro (Figure 8). It will then be steadily improved throughout the life of the Network according to the continuous improvement principles or APDCA (Analysis-Plan-Do-Check-re-Act) in order to reach Excellence.

Figure 8: Steps in management implementation

The strategy for a sustainable management CNRS and NanoMemPro coordinator will monitor the good implementation and improvement of the whole system after month 18. Skilled management know-how will be transferred to the NoE members when appropriate. This will enable the Network to operate on a long-term basis as an integrated and self-sufficient high level organisation. Finally, the creation of an legal entity will reinforce the management structure of the Network. The different decision making roles defined in NanoMemPro NoE are presented on the following table according to the three defined management levels.

Level of Management

Decision-maker Role

Governing Board Definition of political and strategic orientations Arbitration, decision of Consortium choices / tasks proposed by ExC

Executive Committee (NoE coordinator, and Activity/Workpackage leaders)

Implement the GB orientations and decisions Manage and report on JPA, IPR, CA Monitor the project

Strategic Management

NoE coordinator

Ensure administrative obligations and communications with EC, related with Governing Board and integrative management Manage the reception and allocation of the grant Prepare requested documents to ExC and EC Integrative Management

Integrative project manager and Integrative Management team

Implementation deployment and monitoring of processes related to integration Assist Executive Committee and coordinator

Activity/Workpackage leaders Monitoring and coordination of workpackages, Progress reporting Inform and make proposals to the ExC

Activity and Workpackage Management

Activity/Workpackage team Implementation of activities, deliverables, milestones

The management system takes care of including the recommendations of the scientific experts through the strategic and executive levels in order to better connect the basic research to the engineering and industrial developments. The work programme of each activity will run coherently with progress and achievements of other levels of management. The Network coordinator will rely on the implemented management system and processes throughout the project, and will manage the interface between the different management modules.

Conception Development Exploitation

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Activity A16 – Strategic management (WP16) (Coordinator CNRS) The task of the strategic management consists in the development of the vision, mission and the values, of NanoMemPro: • Development, application and continuous improvement of the management system. • Involvement of the partners, the European citizen and research community, and also other Networks. • Motivation, comfort and recognition by the Governing Board of the NoE individual participants.

This level of management has the role of arbitration, of piloting the political and strategic orientations of the Network. Composed of representatives of each contractor, the Governing board and the Executive Committee (the strategic management bodies) include also, as advisors, the head of the Integrative Management Team, the Coordinator, the Scientific Council delegate, and any qualified person invited. The strategic management also includes the coordination work of the integrative management team, and the strategy development and decision making by the Governing Board. This will ensure a strong connection among the three levels of management.

Activity A17 – Integrative management (WP17) (Coordinator CNRS)

This management level includes different management actions called “processes” allowing to describe, organise and complete the implementation of the JPA for obtaining a durable integration and excellence. These processes are the declination of the NoE strategy and can define and organise the lasting fulfilment of NanoMemPro objectives. They are implemented under the responsibility of the integrative project manager in close collaboration with the NoE coordinator. It will include the design, the development and the implementation of an integrative management manual which defines the whole function of processes. More specifically the processes of the integrative management are the following: Coordination of integrative management – The implementation of the three integrative processes described below will probably affect others. This usual risk requires then a special process dedicated to the coordination of all processes. It will include the integrative management plan of the JPA, managing interfaces and interactions between processes, integrative progress, and finally managing their eventual modifications.

The “Integrating activities-related” integrative process - This process supports the implementation and the continuous improvement of the two following types of integrative processes (join research and spread of excellence process). Various processes to implement have been identified: joint activity management, integrated finances, management of people, facilities, purchases, communication, degree of excellence measurement, risks and legal aspects.

The “Joint Research” integrative process - It consists in establishing the scope definition, verification and modification for the joint programme of research activities defined by the Network.

The “Spreading of Excellence” integrative process - It consists in coordinating the suitable conception, development, implementation and improvement of the spread of excellence activities in order to attain the excellence in dissemination and exploitation of the results (in communication, public awareness, training, cross-linking).

Activity A18 – Activity and Workpackage management (WP18) (Coordinator CNRS)

The operational management will be carried out at the workpackage level, while the management at the activity level will be activated only when necessary for those that are made of several workpackages, and will concern common actions that are required for their coordination. This level includes management and monitoring of administrative and technical matters, and works closely with the integrative management level. This management includes the activity coordination, the content, the delay, the costs, the resources, the communication, the risks and the purchases management. Each workpackage leader is responsible for the deliverables and milestones of his workpackage. The workpackage leader supplies to the integrative management team the necessary information in order to establish a detailed image of the project progress and prevent possible deviations. Training in management methods has been foreseen within WP12 for activity and workpackage leaders in order to support them in their management tasks.

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6.B Plans 6.5 Plan for using and disseminating knowledge 6.5.1 Consortium agreement Further arrangements are defined in the Consortium Agreement to be signed by all contractors before the project starts and before the signature of the EC model contract. All partners have expressed their formal commitment by a signed letter to reach an agreement on this final version and to sign it before the EC contract is signed. 6.5.2 Conditions to ensure a proper knowledge management Knowledge is the natural asset of RTD organization and knowledge management can play a valuable role in avoiding redundancy in research efforts and increasing synergies in the production of research output. Knowledge management in NanoMemPro aims to encourage “sharing” between organisations which work together on common projects. Sharing is the keyword that could overturn the logics of RTD internalities, so that the wealth of know-how and ideas dispersed or embedded in the organisations come to the surface. In order to overcome the problem of “resistance” in sharing, the Network will initiate a new kind of managers responsible for the task to ensure that knowledge is shared across the Network organisation. This is a vital complement to knowledge management systems. Indeed, while those systems are good at transferring explicit knowledge, direct personal contact is needed to transfer tacit knowledge effectively. Individuals are generally motivated to share, when perceived, mutual benefits. The challenge is therefore to design an effective reward mechanism that will encourage knowledge sharing. Incentives that can be introduced are enhanced status of researcher or financial compensation. The Network will create a common database including all relevant scientific information. The contents will be regularly updated. This information can be shared on a common data extranet server and can be accessible to other scientific communities through scientific publications and workshops. A “knowledge database” will be set up and include publications, documented procedures, strategies, research experimental data and regular research reports. In this portal, project partners, could have a secure access to the whole database. More details about the knowledge management can be found in the related integrating activity description. The IPUDC will establish a plan for use and dissemination of the knowledge expected to be generated in the Network and will update it. The global strategy will be focused on the need to use and disseminate the knowledge, but also to protect it where industrial or commercial exploitation is possible, in accordance with IPRs to be granted. 6.5.3 Intellectual Property rights (IPR) Intellectual property rights (IPR) become an increasingly important topic in Network development and in a context of rapid transfer of technology for exploitation favouring competitiveness but also large dissemination for the society’s benefit. In order to facilitate the transfer of the knowledge generated by the Network to the private sector, the following principles will be adopted: • provide partial or exclusive licences to firms interested in commercialising the technology, • promote technology partnership arrangements with the private sector, • guarantee a clear definition of the IPRs likely to result from each research activity, • develop mechanisms to identify technologies with commercial impact and pursue IP protection for them, • introduce new types of contractual arrangement that will enable Network members to capture the benefits from

their inventions, e.g. taking equity in start-up companies as a form of royalties. The IPRs definition is detailed in the consortium agreement that has already been discussed by the NanoMemPro members and must be signed before the NoE starts. 6.6 Gender Action Plan A transition to both a gender-balanced and gender-sensitive organisation is highly needed to promote gender integration into research especially in membrane process and engineering sciences where the overall participation rate of women is particularly unsatisfactory. The NanoMemPro network will strive to employ and appoint more women working in specialised research fields to the top decision-making positions. The objective is to increase the current rate of over 50% of women employed at different positions.

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Genne (VITO) and Reyes Mallada (UNIZAR). This team will notably take care of regulary inserting initiatives of the Gender Action Plan in the works and on the agenda of the management bodies meetings.

In order to make up for the scarceness of women, the NanoMemPro partners are committed to promoting equal employment opportunities and to continuing the action programme to make this policy fully effective. Women are already involved in the Network as key partners. Two of the representative partners are women in the top decision-making positions of the NoE. Professor Maria Norberta de Pinho (IBET) leads WP6.2 (Develop high added value technological services). Dr Inge Genné (Vito) leads WP14 (Technology Transfer to Industry). Dr Marianne Nyström (LUT) manages WP15.2 (“Strengthening Citizens’ awareness in Science”). They are responsible for several actions in Joint Research and Spread of Excellence activities. For example, Dr Inge Genné (Vito) will organise European Technology Transfer Fairs on membrane technology solutions inside and outside Europe and will coordinate a common technological website to foster marketplaces for dissemination. They will also encourage collaboration between SMEs and institutions by establishing mechanisms related to the concept of “Leading Technology Institutes”. Dr Marianne Nyström will manage the production of support documents to be submitted to citizens, the organisation of visits from public schools to universities and industries in order to transmit the “know-how” of the Network.

In addition, in NanoMemPro, the percentage of female researchers is of 40% and that of PhD students of 53%. These data are in line with a recent study carried out by Eurostat1. Indeed, according to this study, in 2000, the number of female graduates in all of the 15 EU Member States except Austria exceeded that of men. France recorded the highest number of female graduates in 1998-99 (277 thousand) while the UK had the highest number of male graduates in 1999/2000 (227 thousand). Germany and Spain come next regarding the number of graduates. Indeed, about 150 thousand women graduated in 1999/2000. However, it is worth pointing out that the men’s graduation rate was higher in Germany (150 thousand) than in Spain (111 thousand). Although positive and encouraging for the future of research, these data remain insufficient. This study also stresses that in most Member States, being a scientist or engineer is a predominantly male occupation. In 2001, in the UK, men were more likely to be employed as Scientists or Engineers. The proportion of women was higher in Finland, Ireland or Belgium. Special efforts should be made to actively promote the participation of women in research actions and to ensure that all actions and projects seriously consider the obligations regarding equal opportunities and gender equality. NanoMempro partners undertake to develop this policy.

The impact on gender equality might be particularly relevant in the context of education. For example, Imperial College embodies and delivers world-class scholarships, education and research in sciences, engineering and medicine, with particular regard to their application in industry, commerce and healthcare. In 2003, Imperial College had 2,700 academic and research staff and 10,000 students, 3,500 of whom were post-graduates. Out of the 10,000 students, 22% came from outside the EU, and 37% were women. This last figure, the gender balance, is a real breakthrough and results from a prolonged and continuing objective to increase the proportion of females at all College levels. The staff of the Department of Chemical Engineering consists of 34 people, including 7 women (i.e. 20%) – this is the highest fraction of female staff on the faculty of any of the Engineering Departments at Imperial College, and it is also higher than any other UK Chemical Engineering Department.

Additionally, at IBET, the female/male ratio of the Instituto Superior Técnico exceeds 50%, both at student and faculty levels. Moreover, in the Instituto Superior Técnico, Research and Teaching are mainly centred in the Chemical Engineering Department where over 50% of university students are women.

The objective is that the participation rate holds steady throughout the project. To do so, specific measures will be implemented: • Increase the organisation’s awareness of the importance of gender equality in research structures Incentives

will be given to employ women in laboratories. Students will be invited to visit laboratories with a view to increasing society’s awareness and understanding of sciences. This activity will focus on raising interest among young women. Besides, flexible working hours and other family-friendly policies will be initiated.

• Establish a system to monitor gender equality in mobility schemes such as equality of access and participation and subsequent impact on professional careers. In mobility, extra funds will be available to cover child care costs for mobility of female researchers who have a primary role in the care of young dependents. Additionally, in order to ensure gender equality, efforts will be made to obtain and disseminate data and information on the gender aspects of mobility within the consortium. For instance, information on the different experiences, needs and interests of women and men as regards mobility or on issues such as discipline, occupation and marital status.

1 Science and technology statistics, Theme 9, 5, 2003

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• Produce a set of gender indicators in order to measure progress towards gender equality in membrane process. NanoMemPro shall therefore use the strategy developed by the European Commission in order to approach the lack of sex-disaggregated data on scientists. The Helsinki Group on Women and Science considers that the gendering of indicators on human resources in sciences is to be tackled from a threefold perspective: the ‘top-down’ approach, the ‘bottom-up’ approach, and the gendering of the benchmarking exercise. In fact, the development of gender-sensitive indicators on the basis of appropriate sex-disaggregated statistics is considered indispensable for integrating the gender dimension in European research. More precisely, the need for developing both quantitative and qualitative gender indicators was identified. The objective is to build a holistic view of the situation. The role of indicators is twofold: measure the progress made in recruitment, retention and career advancement and, evaluate the progress achieved in policies, procedures and programmes which greatly influence the relative position of women and men.

• Take possible actions against institutions which do not meet the obligations concerning equal opportunities. • Consider the fact that the impact on gender equality could be relevant as regards education. NanoMemPro

integrates a number of universities which will use and follow the Science and Society Action Plan established by the European Commission. Projects with a gender dimension like NoE could even be clustered at Action line, Key action or Programme level to encourage the networking of women involved in the implementation of these projects, particularly in areas where the rate of women employed is low (ex. NMP).

6.7 Raising public participation and awareness The Network will elaborate a communication plan that implements the necessary communication action (calendar, targets, budget, exhibitions…). The objective will be to inform the public about the aims, developments and impacts of the Network activities. Typical actions will comprise press releases, the public website and the Network brochure.

WP15.1 Consumers’ concerns and regulations (Coordinator IBET) It is essential that the consumer be a fully recognised stakeholder and that his/her concerns are taken into account in the Network research activities on membranes development and their applications. NanoMemPro will facilitate the consumer dialogue at the European level in order to enable people with different cultures and background to exchange their viewpoints and for the Network to identify their expectations, particularly regarding well-being and sustainable development. The purpose will be to try to respond to their requests or at least to find reasonable directions for the future activities and orientations. The Network will consult the public for all aspects related to the use of membranes in applications for well-being and sustainable development such as energy systems, life support, food quality and new production processes. NanoMemPro could implement dedicated procedures to allow the dialogue between scientific experts and consumers, to keep the public informed about the Network’s activities that concern them, and to anticipate new expectations. Finally, NanoMemPro will take care of existing norms and regulations applicable to membranes, could participate to standardisation groups that are relevant to its activities, and could undertake actions to present Network contributions to specific groups at the European or international level.

WP15.2 Strengthening Citizen’s awareness in science (Coordinator LUT) Despite the relatively positive image of scientists and engineers, Europeans are unwilling to commit themselves to studying the “hard” disciplines in sciences, engineering and technology and to taking up an associated career. The Network will support actively the EU’s “Science and Society” programme in order to stimulate the attractiveness of science, Engineering and Technology related to membranes. • Creation of one permanent position, placed under the direct authority of the coordinator. They will be in charge

of disseminating information to reinforce citizens’ public awareness and facilitate the understanding of Science. The specific means of communication already existing at partner sites will have to be put in synergy with the new activities thus generated.

• All members will strengthen their commitment at a regional and European level to support the development of school science, engineering and technology education. Awards might be developed for the most successful initiatives. Articles in the non-specialist press can be also published.

• The Network will test the introduction of Creative Science Teaching modules into the formal training period of primary pilot schools.

• School students could visit Network partners’ labs. A special day dedicated for Girls should be organised to foster women interest in scientific careers. Secondary school students in their final year could spend a week and gain work experience. This initiative can be funded by Network. Not only would students be involved but also their families and classmates who would get a clearer picture of what the Network does.

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• To give access to a website is a great way of increasing public awareness of the Network’s work. This can be done through hosting open days, or providing high school students with work experience. Access to students can also be co-ordinated with existing exchanges; for example, each member of an overseas school on a foreign exchange can spend a day in a different institution.

6.C Milestones 6.8 Major Milestones over full project duration The NanoMemPro proposal aims to reach the baseline milestones that will enable the Network to achieve its goals in terms of integration and durability. These milestones represent the main stages and moments of the first four years of Network’s growth. They can cover fully or partially some of the WP milestones but not automatically because they illustrate the Network's global development. Thus these milestones will allow to assess the Network progress both in terms of internal organisation and integration, of research and dissemination, and finally of autonomous development. They are listed in the table below.

The first major milestones correspond to the setting up and the running of operational and efficient frameworks and tools (Management, Communication, Club of interest, legal structure, Club of expertise …) to strengthen the Network’s growth. The next milestones are more related to starting and implementing NanoMemPro specific initiatives (technology fairs, Master and PhD degrees, mobility centre, technology platform …) while the last milestones concern notably the design of the foreseen development of the network (roadmaps, plan …).

Milestone title Planned date Successful implementation of NoE management according to the EFQM and ISO 10006 standard M12

Communication of NanoMemPro existence, its objectives and expertise to scientific community, industry, consumers – NanoMemPro web site on-line M12

Set-up and running of the Club of Interest M12 Adaptation of each partner to a suitable integration - Creation of a legal structure for the coordination M36

Availability of common resources and technical facilities – Electronic communication system between partners fully ready (Secure extranet and visioconference system)

M18

Running the Club of Expertise and linking with other NoEs, IPs, third parties…active in the same area M36

1st General meeting on NanoMempro JPR activities and other related actions M18 Fisrt technology fair M34 Official presentation of the European Membrane Technology Platform (Membrane House) M36

Set-up and running of new Master and PhD degrees M36 Membrane Mobility Centre for improved staff mobility fully established M36 Successful production of Strategic Business/Research Agenda M36 Roadmap for technology transfer – First Nanomempro fairs M36 New plan for improved citizen’s awareness – Congress and communication to media M36

New upgraded analytical and pilot plant facilities for the Platform. Extended networking capabilities ( webcams, robots…) adapted to follow and control experiments in the whole network

M36

2nd General meeting on NanoMempro JPR activities and other related actions M36 Final meeting of the EC supported action on the general thematic : “Present state and future roadmap of NanoMemPro”

M48

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7. QUALITY OF INTEGRATION AND PERFORMANCE INDICATORS Quality control necessitates monitoring specific results to determine if they comply with the relevant quality standards and identifying ways to eliminate causes of unsatisfactory results. It will be performed throughout the project. Project results include both product results, such as deliverables, and project management results such as cost and schedule performance. Quality control will be performed by the degree of excellence management process and will be implemented during the next months of the project. Key performance indicators will be to follow up during the project life. The following table presents the principal indicators selected to reach Excellence.

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WP integrative objective Indicators (I) to follow

(sources of verification: WPs, deliverables, others…)

Quantified objectives to reach Alternatives of not reaching the quantified

objectives

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 WP01.1 - Integrate knowledge management

I1: Disseminative actions from common activities between Partners for knowledge exchange

10 20 10 5 Reduce legal, administrative and economic barriers by building on and further developing the common activities already ongoing Establish an area for knowledge exchange

through directed actions and common decisions I2: Number of joint courses and

training activities (3 or more partners) 2 5 4 5 Developing further already existing tools as EMS summer school etc.

WP01.2 - Share and reinforce tools and facilities

I1: Nr of decisions concerning specialization and upgrading of tools 1 2 2 2

Try to minimize administrative delay in the organization and upgrading plan for existing facilities Use at the best already existing bilateral contacts

I2: Nr of hours spent using common equipment 100 200 200 200

To put out the best specialization and upgrading of facilities as well as the sharing of tools in order to get a most cost efficient research

I3: Nr of of researchers already using common equipments 10 5 10 10

WP02.1 - Adaptation of organisation activities

I1: Nr of harmonisation decisions (on-going research projects) <<30 <<20 10 5

I2: Nr of meetings concerned with adaptation of organisation activities 5 >4 2 0

Be sure that the search for common objectives and a real synergy is correctly running

I3: Nr of new common actions (research, education, information) 5 >>10 15 20

Increase negotiations either on a case by case or on a tempory basis Analyse legal incompatibilities or way-of-doing at the national level to overcome difficulties

WP02.2 - Reinforce electronic communication and networking

I1: Nr. of active participants of the extra-cooperative tool per group 2 219 240 270 Improve teaching

Be sure that each participant will have access to the knowledge generated by the integrating activities

I2: Nr. of video webconferences 0 2 5 10 Meetings

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WP integrative objective Indicators (I) to follow

(sources of verification: WPs, deliverables, others…)

Quantified objectives to reach Alternatives of not reaching the quantified

objectives

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 WP03 - Plan for staff mobility and work positions

I1: Nr of advertisements for mobility in the Network server 10 20 20 20

I2: Nr of man/months of mobility 10 20 20 20 I3: Nr of decisions taken to facilitate mobility and job opportunities 2 2 2 2

Make the Network more attractive for researchers. Improve the mobility of people between the core partners and associated industrials members of the Club of Interest. Create new work positions in the membrane area I4: Nr of information meetings 2 2 0 1

Avoid that mobility may disrupt team activity (acceptable trade-off to be found between positive benefits and negative impacts)

WP04 - Integrate the Club of Interest in the NoE framework

I1: Number of attendances of club members at seminars and workshops 21 40 40 40 Hold meetings at one of club members sites

I2: Number of Industrial Training/Experience placements at Club members sites

0 Postponed 3 5

Involve new members who explicitly encourage placements Substitute placements for inter-partner exchanges

I3: Newsletters circulated to club members 1 3 3 3 Review management of newsletter and change

responsible partner

To integrate the club of interest members into the network, and to ensure

I4: Club Membership 37 (10 SME)

47 (18 SME)

49 (15 SME)

50 (17 SME)

Increase advertising; review joining rules; review industry sectors

WP05 - Create a legal entity

I1: Nr of meetings with national bodies 4 6 0 0 I2: Nr of meetings with the international law firm in charge of preparing the legal entity

1 4 2 3 Establish a permanent and durable legal structure able to give a supranational and legal frame offering enough flexibility and facilitating coordination and management I3: Nr of meetings with the Club of

Interest 1 0 0 0

Show persuasion and perseverance during negotiations with national bodies Try to minimize administrative delay in the implementation of the legal entity

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WP integrative objective Indicators (I) to follow

(sources of verification: WPs, deliverables, others…)

Quantified objectives to reach Alternatives of not reaching the quantified

objectives

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 WP06.1 - Increase financial autonomy and durability

I1: Number of relevant identified financing possibilities (D06.1.2; D06.1.3)

n.a. N N+5% Enlarge and diversify the research

I3: Number of financing possibilities for which partnerships are proposed (D06.1.2; D06.1.3)

n.a N N+5% Increase

To design and implement a tool dedicated to the improvement of the network financial autonomy in order to ensure its durability.

I6: Correct implementation of Business plan previsions (D06.1.2; D06.1.3)

Postponed

n.a AR AR+1 Adapt and improve the business plan

WP06.2 - Develop high added value technological services

I1: Number of large equipments, facilities, dedicated software and other research tools available for common use in data-base

15 200 200 200 Establish contacts with other research laboratories, NoE and companies

Establish a common European Membrane Technology Platform (EMTP) in order to provide a research framework to carry out joint actions concerning education, research and technological progress.

I.2: Number of successful actions of use of equipments and other research tools

n.a. n.a. 40 60 Increase dissemination activities; review access rules

WP07 - Characterisation of membrane function

I1: Nr of exchanged samples, measured by the time

Postponed 4% 8% 15% Revision of the characterisation module to

adapt it to the needs of the partners Optimum employ of the characterisation facilities I2: Reproducibility of results, measured

as deviation of results between laboratories (%)

Postponed 15% 10% 5% Revision of the characterisation methods to

detect the reasons for the differences

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WP integrative objective Indicators (I) to follow

(sources of verification: WPs, deliverables, others…)

Quantified objectives to reach Alternatives of not reaching the quantified

objectives

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 WP08 - Modelling and simulation of membrane performance

I1: Number of nanoporous polymer membrane materials whose structure will be simulated (cumulative)

12 20 20 20 Investigate variants of materials examined. Extract reviews and conclusions from available data or literature

I2: Number of partners that will exchange structure characterisation data and structural model input requirements (cumulative)

6 6 6 6 Use available data from literature To integrate membrane models for improved separation performance

I3: Number of membrane materials whose structure will be modelled and will provide input to transport models for testing

12 20 30 30 Organize data exchange during partners’ meetings

WP09 - Synthesis optimisation of membrane material

I1: number of workshops for new membrane formation technologies 1 1 1 1 Develop further already existing tool as EMS

summer school I2: number of partners, which are offering their specialised membrane formation equipment to other partners

5 5 5 8 Establish contacts with additional research laboratories and companies

To evaluate and investigate new breakthrough membrane materials and membrane formation technologies, and to share specialised membrane formation equipment of partners I3: Number of joint project proposals

in area of work package 2 1 1 1 Use network funding to promote bilateral visits to initiate projects

WP10 - Back-design and mass production of membrane material

I1: Number of membrane processes investigated for mass production of optimal membrane materials

1 1 1 2 Improve data exchange with WP08 and WP09

I2: Number of realized pilot plants for testing the performances of the produced membranes

1 1 1 2 Improve data exchange with WP11.1

I3: Number of industrial operators involved 2 4 6 8 Improve data exchange with WP14

To optimise the design and the mass production of membranes for membrane operations of industrial relevance

I4: Number of EU Framework Programme research proposals 0 0 1 1 Improve data exchange with WP08 and WP09

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WP integrative objective Indicators (I) to follow

(sources of verification: WPs, deliverables, others…)

Quantified objectives to reach Alternatives of not reaching the quantified

objectives

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 WP11.1 - New production processes: system approach

I1: Culmulative number of attendees at Workshops run on WP theme 20 16 20 20

Consider changing initial 4 themes if they prove not to draw interest over project life Consider video-conferencing and use of electronic facilities from WP02.2

I2: Reports using established metrics 0 0 1 1

Offer prize for technological advance which demonstrates largest reduction in environmental impact measured by metric each 2 years

I3: Membranes produced in one partner and tested in another

2 3 4 8 Examine and revise protocol for sharing membrane materials

To integrates research activities in the area of sustainability

I4: Number of joint project proposals submitted in area of workpackage 0 2 2 3

Use network funding to promote bilateral visits to promote projects Consider changing initial 4 themes

WP11.2 - Food quality: safer production methods

I1: Number of investigated membranes for contactors and packaging 3 8 5 7 Improve data exchange with WP08 and WP09

I2: Number of investigated case studies of industrial relevance 4 6 6 8 Use available data from literature To develop methods and criteria for

improving food quality and realize safer production processes I3: Number of modified and

functionalised membranes for high specific molecular separations and recognition

3 6 5 7 Improve and revise protocols for membrane functionalisation Improve data exchange with WP08 and WP09

WP11.3 - Sustainable energy systems

I1: Number of new research project initiatives related to renewable energy technology and CO2 mitigation technology

0 6 3 4 Use network funding to promote bilateral visits to promote projects

To integrate research activities in the area of sustainability I2: Increase in the number of members

of the Club of Interest with particular interest in the H2 society and CO2 sequestration

1 1 2 2 Use network funding to increase contact to industry

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WP integrative objective Indicators (I) to follow

(sources of verification: WPs, deliverables, others…)

Quantified objectives to reach Alternatives of not reaching the quantified

objectives

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 WP11.4 - Life support and health

I1: Number of new collaborative research projects related to life support and health

0 1 0 1 Enrol other expertise groups from outside the Network and submit proposal

I2: Number of new EU funded projects 0 0 1 2 Use efforts to formulate national proposals I3: Number of workshops 2 0 1 1 Telephone and Videoconferences

To integrate and stimulate new research activities in the area of life support and health

I4: Number of exchanges of people 1 0 1 2 WP12 - Joint training and education programme

I1: number of training workshops (cumulative) 0 1 2 4 Intensify the advertisement of the different

training options via Internet, EMS etc

I2: number of students exchanged 5 4 15 20 Concentrate on developing the European co-advised PhD programme

To elaborate a scheme for exchange of PhD students and researchers and to organize training workshops at different member organisations

I3: number of exchanged researchers and key staff 3 4 10 15 Use network funding for bilateral visits to

promote exchange of researchers

WP13.1 - Knowledge transfer and international cooperation

I1 Number of cooperation agreements 8 >5 3 3 Direct contacts with partners in developing and industrialized countries

I2 Number of international symposia and summer schools 1 9 2 2 E-learning courses on specialised subjects Promote international collaborations with

developing as well as with industrialized countries

I3 Number of participants in symposia and summer schools organized 35 >30 30 30

Development of advanced programmes on membrane technologies included in Euro BSc and MSc programmes

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WP integrative objective Indicators (I) to follow

(sources of verification: WPs, deliverables, others…)

Quantified objectives to reach Alternatives of not reaching the quantified

objectives

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 WP13.2 - Cross-linking with other Programmes or Institutions

I1: Nr of common meetings or seminars 3 >3 5 5

I2: Nr of common actions with partners external to NanoMemPro (articles in journals, cross-references in Network servers, on-going FP5 and FP6 programmes or new proposals in FP7…)

10 >20 30 40

I3: Nr of individualities proposed in the Club of Expertise 30 <45 50 60

Establish synergy with other national or international programmes or institutions active on the same fields in order to get a most cost efficient research

I4: Nr of new initiatives with Institutions from non European countries

4 1 7 8

Use at the best all the dedicated desks and sources of information to identify and contact all the potential partners

WP14 - Technology transfer to industry

I1: Number of technology profiles in data-base 8 11 25 30 Increase dissemination activities and attendance

to brokerage events

I2: Number of matches in data-base 2 4 6 6 Shortage of technology demands inputs in database find other means to bring technology offers to market

I3: Number of contract negotiations 1 1 3 4 Specify market potential and question maturity of technology

Be sure that matches between technology offers and demands are maximized

I4: Number of contracts 0 0 2 2 Difficult to quantify, not always open to public, try to receive feedback information

WP15.1 - Consumers’ concerns and regulations

Integrate knowledge gathered about citizens’ concerns and expectations

I2: Number of visitors to the Network site 0 >>1000 3000 5000 Promote dissemination activities

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WP integrative objective Indicators (I) to follow

(sources of verification: WPs, deliverables, others…)

Quantified objectives to reach Alternatives of not reaching the quantified

objectives

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 WP15.2 - Strengthening Citizens’ awareness in science

I1: Cumulative nr of articles in newspapers or information pamphlet (Prepared by partners)

3 6 15 20 Alternative communication type

I2: Cumulative nr of school children / student groups reached 3 10 15 20 Alternative communication type

I3: Cumulative nr of education material(Prepared by partners and teachers)

3 10 15 20 Alternative communication type

I4: Cumulative demonstrations in schools (Prepared by partners, teachers and school children representatives)

1 3 5 10 Alternative communication type

I5: Cumulative video demonstration materials (Prepared by partners, teachers and video experts)

0 0 3 5 Alternative communication type

Citizens’ awareness in membrane science

I6: Cumulative workshops or seminars (Prepared by partners and target groups)

0 1 2 3 Alternative communication type

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WP integrative objective Indicators (I) to follow

(sources of verification: WPs, deliverables, others…)

Quantified objectives to reach Alternatives of not reaching the quantified

objectives

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 WP16 - Strategic management

I1: Number of situations blocking the strategic management process (D16.1; D16.2)

n.a. n.a. N N-10% Improve the process and the training

I2: Evaluation of the partners's satisfaction by means of an annual investigation (investigation, levels of satisfaction 1 to 4)

n.a. n.a. 2 3 Translate remarks collected by improving strategic process

I3: Number of relevant strategic documents produced (D16.1 ; D16.2) n.a. n.a. N N+10%

Develop active participation of partners. Strengthen implementation of management among partners, elaborate common strategy, and promote transparency Implementation of the strategic

management

I4: Percentage of partners systematically represented at the strategic level and decision-making level of the representatives (Documented in minutes of Executive Committee and Governing Board + data from the annual investigation)

100% (only quantitavive)

100% + level of decision making

100% + level of decision making

100% + level of decision making

Promote active participation of partners Search reasons why some organisations are sending unsufficient representatives: lack of interest, fear of integration, material problems,... Solutions to find in order to reach full integration

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WP integrative objective Indicators (I) to follow

(sources of verification: WPs, deliverables, others…)

Quantified objectives to reach Alternatives of not reaching the quantified

objectives

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 WP17 - Integrative management

I1: % of unspent funding compared with planned one (D17.1) 41,2% 21.6% D -20% D -30% Improve expenses monitoring

I2: Number of neutralized risks (D17.1) n.a. n.a. N+10% N+20% Reinforce training, communication.

Estimation and alert process improvement I3: Number of purchases having a common interest for NanoMemPro (D17.1; WP01.2 + WP06.2)

3 N+10% N+20% N+30% Reinforce common purchase plans and prospects

I4: Percentage of indicators controlled (well chosen, reliable and relevant during the full duration) (D17.1)

N N+5 N+5 N+10 Some indicators have no indicative value after some period: try to remove or replace whenever possible

Implementation of the integration management

I5: Successful review and improvement (meeting every 6 months). Operational integrative management and efficient communication with the partners. (D17.1)

n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a.

Search and validate modifications of integrative management with the management team. Find individual solutions with the partners

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WP integrative objective Indicators (I) to follow

(sources of verification: WPs, deliverables, others…)

Quantified objectives to reach Alternatives of not reaching the quantified

objectives

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 WP18 - Activity and Workpackage management

I1: Control of activity review and improvement of procedures (D18.1) Number/year

n.a. n.a. 2 2 Reinforce the quality and requirements

I2: Correct implementation of the WPs planned progress. Successful review and improvement. (D18.1)

n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a.

Search and validate modifications of operational management with the management team. Find individual solutions with the partners for improving communication

I3: Number of management report updates. Activity reporting complete as planned.(D18.1)

2 n.a. 2 2 Search solutions to dysfunctions of management team or of communication tools

Implementation of the project management procedures.

I5: Respect of the deadlines : rate of deliverables carried out in the due deadlines (D18.1)

75% 44% (date) 85% 90%

Advance the starting of the task Anticipate the delays more

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8. PROJECT ORGANISATION, MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE

STRUCTURES

8.1 Organisational, management and governance structure The ambitious objectives regarding integration and the large number of participants require a strong and coherent management structure and organisation, able to undertake projects such as the NanoMemPro Network of Excellence. The management structure is based upon the principles, processes of the European foundation for Quality management (EFQM) and the ISO 10006 standards which will be the basis and the tools for a successful management.

All levels of decision and action, management of work-packages included, follow the continuous process improvement principle towards Excellence represented by the Deming wheel or PDCA (Plan Do Check Act). The PDCA principles will also be applied to each individual (researcher, administrative staff) involved in the Network.

The structure and organisation of management activities are presented on Figure 10. A matrix organization has been adopted in order to provide more flexibility and adaptability in changing conditions. The matrix organization is an attempt to take advantage of the benefits of a pure-project organization while maintaining the advantages of the functional organizations.

Modelling and simulation of membrane performance

IntegratingActivities

Management

- Knowledge sharing- Data bases

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Scientific Council

Ethics Council

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Executive Committee

Network Coordinator

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management

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management

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- Plan for mobility- Management oftransversal resources

Management of commonfacilities, tools

- Consortium agreement- Contracts- IPR

Network purchases

- Cost planification- Financial follow-up- Payments

- Audits- Quality plan- Quality indicators

Risk identification,analysis, reduction

- e-communication

Jointlyexecutedresearch

management

Spreading ofExcellence

management

Joint training and education programme

Technology transfer to industry

Dissemination of results to scientific community

NoE communication plan to citizen

Activity Leader

Activity Leader

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Back-design and mass production of membrane material

Applications for well-being and sustainability

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Activity Leader

Activity Leader

Activity Leader

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Create a legal entity (EEIG, ECS...)Activity Leader

Set up a European Membrane Technology Platform (Membrane house)Activity Leader

Towards a European membrane laboratoriumActivity Leader

Consolidation of the integrated organisationsActivity Leader

Plan for staff mobility and work positionActivity Leader

Integrate the Club of Interest in the NoE frameworkActivity Leader

Characterisation of membrane functions

Modelling and simulation of membrane performance

Synthesis optimisation of membrane material

Figure 10: The NanoMemPro management structure and organisation

The strategic management The strategic management level includes three main decision-making roles: the Governing Board, the Executive Committee and the NanoMemPro coordinator. • Governing board (GB): The Governing Board members will be high level representatives of each participant

organisation with political and strategic orientation character. Their main role is to oversee the integration of the participants’ activities and to make high-level decisions in each organisation in order to adapt management structures and accelerate integration. They make sure that the adopted strategy is respected in order to reach

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excellence. The GB decides on the commitments proposed by the Executive Committee and arbitrates all decisions of the ExC. The chairperson of the GB is elected by unanimous decision of the representatives among the members of this body. The head of the Executive Committee, the head of the Integrative Management Team, the Coordinator, the Scientific Council delegate and any qualified person invited shall attend GB meetings with a role of advisor. The Governing Board is assisted in its tasks by advisory councils (see below) and shall pay special attention to the participation and to the recommendations of the Scientific council.

• Executive Committee (ExC): The Executive Committee is a very important decision level within the NanoMemPro management organisation and is composed of the heads of the activities/workpackages and of the head of the ExC appointed by the GB. The head of the integrative management team, the coordinator, and the Scientific Council delegate shall attend meetings with a role of advisor as well as any other qualified person invited by the head of the ExC. The ExC will meet at least twice a year or more often, should special issues be discussed. The ExC informs the GB on the NanoMemPro progress and implements its strategic decisions, it also proposes the budget as well as the allocation of funding between members. It has numerous duties concerning the Programme of Activities, the entry of new contractors, the intellectual property and the project monitoring. The members of the ExC attend, as a whole or partly, the review meetings that each head of activity / workpackage will plan. They are assisted in their role by advisory councils (see below). They can also require the temporary implementation of a council on a specific subject, and even the help of the GB in making their decision.

• NanoMemPro Coordinator (CNRS): Participant to all management bodies, he is responsible for the strategic and for the monitoring of everyday management of NanoMemPro notably by leading the WP18. He is the only responsible for the contacts with the European Commission and for the good ascending and descending communication within the Network. He receives the entire financial community contribution and manages its allocation pursant to the programme of activities and the decisions taken by the appropriate bodies. He prepares reports for the ExC, and adresses these reports to the European Commission.

The strategic management also includes the following advisory roles: • Scientific Council (SC) The Scientific Council is composed of external experts recognised for their expertise in the field of the Project, appointed by the Governing Board which will determine their number for the term of this Consortium Agreement. The Governing Board appoints the chairperson of the Scientific Council among the members of this Council on a unanimous basis. The head of the Executive Committee and a member of IPUDC (see below) shall attend meetings with a role of advisor. The Scientific Council shall meet at least once a year. Prior to the beginning of its activity, each member of the Scientific Council shall enter into a non disclosure agreement. The Scientific Council is a scientific evaluation consultative body:

- It advises the Governing Board on project orientations. - It evaluates the programme of work as well as the results obtained. - It formulates recommendations to which the GB and/or ExC shall reply. - It may be consulted by the Governing Board on any scientific issues. - It may make any proposal or transmit any information it deems useful to the Governing Board.

For meeting organisation purposes, the Scientific Council shall be assisted by the head of the integrative management team. • Ethics Council Composed of recognized external experts, the Ethics Council would be set up for the same purpose as the SC but it would be more related to a European concern: ethics care. The role of the Ethics Council will be to identify and anticipate ethical problems that may be associated to the development of material membranes and the linked processes and will take actions to make researchers aware of the ethics issues related to material sciences. It collaborates closely with the WP11.4's partners who will work on bio-artificial organs. • The Industrial Property Use and Dissemination Committee (IPUDC) The IPUDC is appointed by the Executive Committee among the specialists of IPR services in the different organisations members of the NanoMemPro. The IPUDC is responsible to identify knowledge that could be the subject matter of protection, use or dissemination based on contemplated publications and activity reports issued by activity leaders. It will assist the Executive Committee in the implementation of measures in connection with publications and protection of knowledge and their dissemination. The committee has strong relationship with the legal and IPR integrative process and submits an annual report to the Executive Committee and Governing Board.

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• The Club of Interest The club of Interest is made up of SMEs and large industrial groups. This club represents the main industrial fields of interest and needs for membranes in Europe and is detailed in Appendix A (p.136). New industrial members, but also public services and international organisations will be incorporated in the future. The club representation and participation in the different committees of the Network will be determined at the time of the first meeting between NanoMemPro consortium and the members of the Club. The Club of Interest will have an advisory and orientation role.

The integrative project management

The Head of Integrative Management Team (HMT) The head of the Management Team is designated by the Executive Committee on the basis of a simple majority vote. He reports to the NanoMemPro Coordinator. He deploys the decisions and the plan decided by the Executive Committee, he is responsible for the implementation and the improvement of every day management and consolidates the necessary information necessary for progress monitoring and assessment of results by the SC. He manages the integrative management team responsible to deploy the different integrative processes and the interfaces. He participates in Executive committee meetings with an advisory capacity and informs it about the progress of the NanoMemPro. He is also in charge of the continuous improvement of the integrative management in order to attain the required excellence. The table below presents the list of the integrative processes concerned by the integrative project management.

Integrative processes Definition

Facilities management Common research facilities, common tools Communication management Knowledge management, e-communication and networking Management of people Plan for mobility, management of transversal resources Knowledge management Initiating, planning, carrying, controlling NoE and external knowledge, Finance Management Cost planning, financial control, payments Risks management Risk identification, analysis and reduction Purchase management Network purchases, equipment and software Degree of excellence management Audits and reporting, quality plan, quality indicators Legal aspects and IPR management Consortium agreement, contracts, IPRs, intellectual property, patents

The Integrative management processes

The Integrative Management Team (IMT) It is responsible for the day to day integrative management and responsible for the deployment of the necessary procedures and plans. It also ensures the monitoring and the control of the necessary actions for a consolidation of the different activities. It is appointed by the Executive Committee and led by the head of the integrative management team. It is composed of the coordinator and one activities/WP leader by JPI, JPR and JPS. The Integrative Management Team shall: • manage the administrative, legal, financial and other non-technical aspects of NanoMemPro (see Figure 10), • assist the Executive Committee in steering the project (follow-up of planning schedule, issue reminders for task

initiation or completion, etc.), • assist the Coordinator in preparing the project deliverables, • assist the Executive Committee in implementing the competitive selection procedure for new contractors, • act as secretary of the Governing Board and of the Executive Committee.

Activity and Workpackage management Management at the activity level will be activated only when necessary for the activities that are made of several workpackages, and will concern common actions that are required for their coordination.

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Workpackage leaders (WPL) A workpackage leader is appointed for the detailed co-ordination, planning, monitoring and reporting of the WP and for the detailed communication with other WPs. More specifically, WP leaders are responsible for: • leading the WP including technical and management activities, • continuously monitoring the progress of the participant tasks, controlling its efficiency, • reporting WP/task activity to the whole consortium in a quarterly Newsletters, • ensuring that milestones and deliverables of the WPs are fulfilled, • organizing, if needed, special meetings to determine suitable measures to be taken.

Each WP leader will manage his/her WP according to the ISO 10006 project management principles. The WP leaders’ team has already been structured as shown in the table hereafter. Meetings, in which all or only some WPL shall participate, will also be organised if necessary.

WP WP Leader WP WP leader WP WP leader

WP01.1 SINTEF WP07 UNIZAR WP13.1 ICTP

WP01.2 CNRS WP08 FORTH/ICE-HT WP13.2 CNRS

WP02.1 CNRS WP09 GKSS WP14 Vito

WP02.2 UTwente WP10 ITM-CNR WP15.1 IBET

WP03 CNRS WP11.1 Imperial WP15.2 LUT

WP04 Imperial WP11.2 ITM-CNR WP16 CNRS

WP05 CNRS WP11.3 SINTEF WP17 CNRS

WP06.1 CNRS WP11.4 UTwente WP18 CNRS

WP06.2 IBET WP12 DTU

WP Leader presentation

8.2 Monitoring and reporting progress Every six months, each WPL will submit to the NanoMemPro integrative management team a summary of the progress of the different aspects of the project on the basis of a regularly updated detailed planning. The reporting includes information about the technical progress, results obtained (e.g. deliverables) and the compliance with the work-programme. The progress status of each task will also be reported in terms of percentage of completion, estimated time for completion, efforts spent and efforts needed to complete the task and all the information at management level (resources, costs, delays, etc). The head of integrative management team will summarise the overall project status and planning. At the end, he will also regularly update the bar chart and the efforts matrix using the data he receives from the partners. All these WP reports will be the basis of the semi-annual report described below. Different kinds of reports will be supplied by the WPL and Integrative Management Team to NanoMemPro Coordinator and through him to the Commission: • Activity report (semi-annual) will be prepared by WP18.1 leader with the support of each WP leader. • Management reports (annual), containing for each period:

- a management-level justification of the resources used for the JPA, for each participant, - a financial part with, for each participant, a financial statement (total eligible costs), an audit certificate, a

summary financial report consolidating the incurred costs and the requested contribution, and a report on the allocation of the Community financial contribution.

For each type of report, the Integrative Management Team will prepare a consolidated version from the information provided by each participant. • In addition, the Network will provide both an Assessment report (annual) and a Final Report.

Annual assessment clause An Assessment report on the progress of the Joint Programme of Activities (JPA) will be submitted for each reporting period to the Commission. An annual assessment meeting will be organised with all partners and the Commission’s representative. The purpose of this meeting will be to report on the progress to date and to redefine (if necessary) the Programme of Activities for the remaining part of the contract. Procedures for managing future exploitation of results will be discussed and approved. A decision whether or not to continue the contract will be

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taken not only considering the specified objectives at this stage for the technical/scientific progress but also the exploitation perspectives for the results.

Organisational, technical and scientific progress The annual assessment is to be made against the satisfactory progress in the programme items at the review dates. Besides deliverables (see table on section 9.5 page 73) and milestones described in each work package (see table on section 9.1 page 52), several performance indicators have been listed (see tables on section 7 page 36). This will be used to monitor the progress of the implementation of the NanoMemPro Road-Map, namelly of research, integration and spreading of excellence activities. These indicators will be monitored each year by the ExC under the responsibility of the coordinator and they will be presented at each annual assessment review with the European Commission. The IMT will also assess the performance indicators related to the integration activities on a regular basis and report this to the ExC. In the intermediate meetings performed by NoE partner, the assessment of the work progress and implementation of the Road-Map will be checked (based on the review of the deliverables, milestones and also performance indicators) by each workpackage leader and reported to the ExC. This regular internal assessment review constitutes an efficient way to monitor the performance of the NoE continuously, as it allows to implement corrective actions (if necessary) in due time and will facilitate the annual review report to be delivered to the EC.

Using and disseminating knowledge progress The existence of joint research actions and their positive and realistic perspectives for the exploitation of the results and the continuing commitment of the partners to the objectives of the project will also be critically assessed at the annual assessments. The plan for using and disseminating knowledge (described in section 6.5) should be maintained throught the lifetime of the project. Updates of the initial plan will be included as separate part of the annual assessment report. The final report of this NoE will include a Final Plan for using and disseminating knowledge indicating all the potential knowledge created and further research and exploitation intentions. The final plan will refer to previous versions of the plan for using and disseminating knowledge, in order to demonstrate how the foreseen activities actually took place, or were modified in the light of the circumstances, or where indeed other actions and measures, initially unplanned, were introduced. This should be described, as much as possible, in concrete terms, for example the dissemination strategies, the target groups and the strategic impact of the project in terms of strengthening European excellence through the tackling of fragmentation of the existing research capacities in the field of membrane technology.

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9. DETAILED JOINT PROGRAMME OF ACTIVITIES (JPA)

9.1 Introduction - general description and milestones

Milestone no Milestone title Achieve date

WP01.1 - Integrate knowledge management

M01.1.3 Workshop conducted. Related to task 1.1.4. M25

M01.1.4 Questionnaire sent to the Partners requesting information on their capabilities to receive training students M36

M01.1.5 Questionnaire sent to the Partners requesting information on the management training programs developed in their institution M36

WP01.2 - Share and reinforce tools and facilities

M01.2.3 Decision on supporting the up-grade and acquisition of equipments M30

M01.2.4 Decision on supporting the up-grade and acquisition of equipments (second row) M42

WP02.1 - Adaptation of organisations activities

M02.1.1 Redirect the works of researchers according to the NoE roadmap M36

M02.1.2 Open facilities to NoE partners and modify their organisation if necessary M30 WP02.2 - Reinforce electronic communication and networking

M02.2.3 Assessment of the video webconferencing tool M30

M02.2.4 Evaluation of the video webconferencing tool M41 WP03 - Plan for staff mobility and work positions

M03.1 Membrane Mobility Forum M36

M03.2 Assessment Meeting M36

M03.3 Meeting of the Post-docs appointed on this programme (Task 03.6) and of their supervisors – Programme assessment and recommendations M34

WP04 - Integrate the Club of Interest in the NoE framework

M04.1 Unified workshop with the NoE and the CoI Members M25 + M36

M04.2 Proof-of-principle on how activities have become better focussed via the Strategic Business Research Agenda M33

WP05 - Create a Legal Entity

M05.3 Unified workshop with the Governing Board M25 + M37

M05.4 Unified workshop with the Network and the Industrialists M33 WP06.1 - Increase financial autonomy and durability

M06.1.1 Successful production of Strategic Business/Strategic Research Agenda M33

M06.1.2 Successful production of at least 3 partnerships M40 WP06.2 - Develop high added value technological services

M06.2.5 Implementation of infrastructure for the transfer of membrane samples M30

M06.2.6 Implementation of a relational database gathering information about membrane materials and their performances M36

M06.2.7 New software tools for modelling and simulation of selected case studies made available M42

WP07 - Characterisation of membrane function

M07.2 Proof-of-principle of two new non-destructive characterisation methods M27

M07.3 Proof-of-principle on how activities have become better focussed via the Strategic Business Research Agenda M33

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Milestone no Milestone title Achieve date

M07.4 Build-up of two new apparatus M36 WP08 - Modelling and simulation of membrane performance

M08.2 Integration of material-level modelling for use in process-scale applications M30

M08.3 Basic characterisation finished for about 30 models, including parameters defined for biatomic gas in application of interest M30

M08.4 Proof-of-principle on how activities have become better focussed via the Strategic Business Research Agenda M33

WP09 - Synthesis optimisation of membrane material

M09.2 Proposal of a European consortium for a new R&D project on a breakthrough technology for new membrane formation M30

M09.3 Proof-of-principle on how activities have become better focussed via the Strategic Business Research Agenda M33

WP10 - Back-design and mass production of membrane material

M10.3 Roadmap to “Realizing nanotechnology for membrane applications" M36

M10.4 Proof-of-principle on how activities have become better focussed via the Strategic Business Research Agenda M33

WP11.1 - New production processes: system approach

M11.1.2 Workshop to decide on desired membrane molecular properties and their interactions with production processes sustainability and economics M25

M11.1.3 Proof-of-principle on how activities have become better focussed via the Strategic Business Research Agenda M33

M11.1.4 New direction for research on the WP based on the roadmapping exercise and SBRA M36

WP11.2 - Food quality: safer production methods

M11.2.3 Proof-of-principle on how activities have become better focussed via the Strategic Business Research Agenda M33

M11.2.4 Starting an international working group with partners from China, Korea, Japan, etc. on food quality related problems (M30) M30

M11.2.5 Meeting for structuring a research proposal (M30) M30 WP11.3 - Sustainable energy systems

M11.3.2 Proof-of-principle on how activities have become better focussed via the Strategic Business Research Agenda M33

M11.3.3 Collaborative project’s content identified and topic, coordinator, name of partners defined M30

M11.3.4 Gathering of basic information related to the EU proposals about partners capabilities M35

WP11.4 - Life support and health

M11.4.5 Meeting expression of interest M25

M11.4.6 Proof of Principle on how activities have become better focussed via the Strategic Business/Research Agenda M33

M11.4.7 First common research proposal M32

M11.4.8 Second common research proposal M38 WP12 - Joint training and education programme

M12.2 Overview of personnel exchange organized by the consortium during the first 36 months M36

M12.3 Overview of the workshops organized by the consortium M36

M12.4 Set-up of new Master and PhD degrees M36

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Milestone no Milestone title Achieve date

WP13.1 - Knowledge transfer and international cooperation

M13.1.3 XXII. Summer school “Smart Membrane Materials” (Prague, September 2006) M25

M13.1.4 Plan for research and dissemination activities towards third countries’ Universities and research institutions M30

M13.1.5 Workshop on the cooperation between NanoMemPro and Eastern Europe countries M32

WP13.2 - Cross-linking with other Programmes or Institutions

M13.2.3 1st meeting of the Club of Expertise M30

M13.2.4 Plan for further activities with partners outside the Network, as a support to the enlargement and strengthening of the ERA M34

WP14 - Technology transfer to industry

M14.3 Proof-of-principle on how activities have become better focussed via the Strategic Business Research Agenda M33

M14.4 Increase of technology offers to 25 M36 WP15.1 - Consumers’ concerns and regulations

M15.1.3 Divulging action with environment and industry officials and industrialists M36 WP15.2 - Strengthening citizens’ awareness in science

M15.2.3 First materials in all NanoMemPro countries finished M30 WP16 - Strategic management

M16.1 Successful assessment of the NoE third-year implementation M28 + M39 WP17 - Integrative management

M17.1 Successful assessment of the NoE third-year implementation M29 + M41 WP18 - Activity and Workpackage management

M18.1 Successful assessment of the NoE third-year implementation M29 + M41

M18.2 Successful implementation of the management procedures M31

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Activity / WP No

Activity / Workpackage title Funding

(%) Funding (Euro)

Integrating Activities A01 Towards a European membrane Laboratorium

WP01.1 Integrate knowledge management 6% 172 675 WP01.2 Share and reinforce tools and facilities 5% 143 896

A02 Consolidation of the integrated organisations WP02.1 Adaptation of organisations activities 5% 143 896 WP02.2 Reinforce electronic communication and networking 5% 143 896

A03 WP03 Plan for staff mobility and work positions 7% 201 454A04 WP04 Integrate the Club of Interest in the NoE framework 5% 143 896A05 WP05 Create a legal entity 4% 115 117A06 Set up a European Membrane Technology Platform

WP06.1 Increase financial autonomy and durability 3% 86 338 WP06.2 Develop high added value technological services 5% 143 896

Joint Executed Research Activities A07 WP07 Characterisation of membrane function 3,5% 100 727A08 WP08 Modelling and simulation of membrane performance 3,5% 100 727A09 WP09 Synthesis optimisation of membrane material 3,5% 100 727A10 WP10 Back-design and mass production of membrane material 3,5% 100 727A11 Applications for well-being and sustainability

WP11.1 New production processes: system approach 3% 86 338 WP11.2 Food quality: safer production methods 3% 86 338 WP11.3 Sustainable energy systems 3% 86 338 WP11.4 Life support and health 3% 86 338

Spreading of Excellence Activities A12 WP12 Joint training and education programme 5% 143 896A13 Dissemination of results to scientific community

WP13.1 Knowledge transfer and international cooperation 4% 115 117 WP13.2 Cross-linking with other programmes or institutions 2% 57 558

A14 WP14 Technology transfer to industry 5% 143 896A15 NoE communication plan to the Citizen

WP15.1 Consumers’ concerns and regulations 3% 86 338

WP15.2 Strengthening citizens’ awareness in science 3% 86 338

Management Activities A16 WP16 Strategic management 2% 57 558A17 WP17 Integrative management 2% 57 558A18 WP18 Activity and Workpackage management 3% 86 338

100% 2 877 919

Budget analysis for the period M25 to M42

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Outline of workpackages

Integrating activities

Activity A01 “Towards a European Membrane Laboratorium” (Coordinator SINTEF) will be implemented through two workpackages during the next 18-months. The objective is to integrate all the obtainable knowledge and to share the existing resources in the consortium. The Laboratorium will then become available to all partners and further to the European membrane community.

WP01.1 – Integrate knowledge management (Coordinator SINTEF) Efficient knowledge management is of key importance to bring research and industrial development forward. The overall objective of this workpackage is to establish a common place where all relevant information can easily be obtained and used, through the handling of standard procedures for collecting and disseminating information. This common place will promote the creation of excellent scientific and technical results and industrial growth within a framework of sustainable development. This workpackage is closely related to the activities of dissemination to the public and the scientific community. The approach will be to develop the interactivity in the group of partners in charge of preparing procedures and coordinating the knowledge management activities by organizing meetings and workshops to exchange views and results (with scientists, industrialists, members of the Club of Interest), and promoting excellence and awareness activities inside the Network. In addition, common actions in the network on education will permit organising joint training courses, workshops, and high-level conferences given by famous senior scientists. A risk to be considered is that knowledge is not transportable. A disciplined approach to putting the Network decisions in place is necessary through careful monitoring.

WP01.2 – Share and reinforce tools and facilities (Coordinator CNRS) The member organisations have research infrastructures with specialized people (technicians or engineers) in charge of different facilities for membrane synthesis, characterisation and testing. The goals of this workpackage are: i) the inventory of existing tools and facilities; ii) the specialization and upgrading of these scientific or technological facilities, each one under the responsibility of one partner; iii) the sharing of tools and facilities among NoE partners and giving them a privileged access. A list of equipement, with the characteristics and conditions of availability of each piece of apparatus has been set-up. In the forthcoming 18 months, partners will continue to collaborate within the frame of topical working parties, per category of equipement, such as: microscopic techniques (including close field microcopies), surface properties characterisation, porosimetric techniques. The interest to work on chemical analysis and pilot plants facilities will be discussed. The role of these working parties will be to propose a strategy of development of each particular type of equipement to the Governing Board. This means that they will suggest to which level some of the existing equipements should be up-graded and define which piece of equipement would be compulsory. In addition, we shall try to improve the proficiency in exploiting available aequipement:

• By the organisation of topical schools, on the major categories of instruments used by most of the institutions laboratories. These schools will be organised by technical staff as well as by scientists, and will be open preferentially to technical staff, students and to a lesser extent to scientists.

• By the organisation of round Robin tests, based on the analysis of a same set of samples at different places in the network, either by the same operator or by operators from different centers.

This set, made of equipement, methods and expertises, will contribute to the establishment of a European Membrane Technology Platform (Activity 06), and of course will be made available to the research programmes carried out within the network. Considering that a Strategic Business and Research Agenda are being prepared, we shall try to account to the latter in the various decisions made out of this WP work. The web database (http://www.dq.fct.unl.pt/nanomemproequipmentdatabase/noev4/index.php), fitted with a powerful search engine, which has been implemented, thanks to the combined efforts of WP6.2, 07 and 01.2, will be maintained and up-dated. The main risk is administrative delay in the organization and upgrading plan for the existing facilities, detrimental to common research efficiency. This would hamper the development of a joint European Research Area. However most of the partners have had contacts and a mutual knowledge for many years; therefore bilateral contacts can solve this kind of problems.

Activity A02 “Consolidation of the integrated organisations” (Coordinator CNRS) is concerned with adapting and involving each partner organisation in the Network structure for both common activities and shared resources. This will be realised in the two workpackages below.

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WP02.1 “Adaptation of organisation activities” (Coordinator CNRS) This package constitutes an essential part of Integration Activities insofar as it intends to describe how the Network Partners will reshape their organisation and activities to agree with common objectives and to find a real synergy leading to a most cost efficient research. Today the European activities on membranes are very fragmented, isolated and compartmentalised, and no more than the simple addition of individual Member State activities. In order to lead this evolution, the following work items will be addressed: define new common key research items to carry out considering the multidisciplinary and multisectorial character of membrane sciences, redirect the on-going research project of the different organisations towards a common roadmap defined by the Network, encourage nationally-funded research projects on membranes to develop links with the Network activities, open permanent positions in each organisation to other Network members. To lead the participating organisations to agree to integrate freely non-negligible means within a larger European framework, likely to redirect their objectives or to modify their assignment in the name of supranational considerations will require much persuasion and perseverance. Potential problems such as legal incompatibilities at the national level may arise; these should be negotiated either on a case by case or a temporary basis. Each participating institution will have to agree clearly and durably with the financial, managerial and strategic details of the aimed virtual Integrated Membrane Laboratory.

WP02.2 “Reinforce electronic communication and networking” (Coordinator UTwente) Sharing scientific and technical information is one of the most important objectives of NanoMemPro, and is fundamental to the definition of a Network of Excellence. Synergies between organisations generated by the integrating activities will engender a common Network knowledge. The aim of this workpackage is to ensure that each participant will have access to this knowledge and to the knowledge produced as part of the JPA. To achieve this objective, NanoMemPro installed an extranet based secure e-management tool providing secure and effective project monitoring and document management. To further enhance communication and sharing of knowledge, a 3D webconferencing and realtime collaborative work tool has been installed. This tool provides access to audio conferencing and video conferencing but also to collaborative work, E-learning and discussion forums on membrane related topics. This collaborative tool is accessible under secured access control, to the consortium members and to the EU officer following the NoE. Work items will be: enable secure audio/video conferencing between the partners, create discussion groups on membrane related topics, reinforce electronic communication means and networking capabilities (with remote capabilities for e-learning, e-control/command). Failure to attain the proposed milestones defined in this WP will hinder subsequent management, and the Network will be forced to rely on more conventional ways of communication, e.g. meetings and telephone calls. Therefore, the effectiveness of the 3D webconferencing and realtime collaborative work tool will be closely monitored via several indicators of success (e.g. number of participants, number of virtual meetings).

WP03 “Plan for staff mobility and work positions” (Coordinator CNRS) Over the last decade, community programmes included an increasing stimulation of both training and mobility of researchers, aiming at a quantitative and qualitative increase of resources within the Community and in the Associated States. The present network strategy aims at making the Network more attractive for researchers, improving the mobility of researchers across Europe and between academia and industry, fostering the exchange of researchers between the consortium organisations, convincing national bodies to account for the mobility in the researcher careers. The actions to be undertaken are: advertise the Network internationally to attract excellent researchers, improve the transparency concerning job opportunities at specific sites as well as funding possibilities and legal requirements, assist the researcher in his/her mobility, prepare, in collaboration with workpackage WP12, the creation of a European PhD in membrane technology, raise the scientific excellence of individual researchers, foster international research and staff exchanges, and contribute to the creation of internationally renowned centres of excellence in the domain. There are clear benefits to mobility as an instrument enriching greatly the value of the research performed.

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We have agreed on a common chart to support mobility within the network, as shown in the table below.

What ? Origin of the budget Who pays

Salary / grant Project Home institution (or host, in case of agreement)

Travel NanoMemPro Home Accommodation NanoMemPro Host Fixed overheads Preparation of mobility 70 hours Host

Help in finding accommodation 10 hours Host

Help in paperwork (immigration/social security…) 10 hours Host

Supervision (e.g. for students) 4 hours per week Host Variable overheads

Use of Integrated equipment See Nanomempro webpage for conditions Host

The Network has registered to the European Portal for scientific mobility, and runs its own web page for advertising jobs not only to the network partners and Club of Interest, but also to a selection of institutional partners, such as membranes Societies from all around the world, but also to individuals who will have subscribed via our web site. In all cases, the Nanomempro Mobility charter, established during the first 12 months, will have to be fullfilled. An assessment of its relevance will be conducted at the end of this period, so as to update it. A Staff Mobility plan following on from the strategic directions defined in the Network will have to be set up. A risk is that mobility may disrupt team activities; therefore mobility should be compatible with an acceptable trade-off between positive benefits accruing to a recipient institution, and negative impacts on the team from which the mobile researcher comes. Another risk is that a laboratory or a country is too attractive compared to the others; to limit this problem, partners can agree on mobility targets for each organization.

WP04 “Integrate the Club of Interest in the NoE framework” (Coordinator Imperial) The goal is to create tight, durable and interactive links between the Club of Interest and the NanoMemPro Network. The Club of Interest is a sort of cluster of companies relevant to the subject of membranes that will support the Network in translating the research outputs into outcomes of practical use. One of the major objectives of the collaboration is to build up an ambitious development programme of new membranes and related applications in various fields related to the membrane market, to share costs for generic research work, to finance innovation projects, to stimulate fast technology transfer, to set-up durable training facilities and to make people mobility easier. The participation of the Club of Interest in this work package will take the form of the following actions: • Advise the Network on the industrialists and citizens/consumers needs. • Provide inputs on the membrane market. • Inform the industrial community of potential applications. • Facilitate technology transfer and exploitation of results. • Help adjust the research activities and projects of the Network. • Have a privileged access to the scientific expertise of partners and to advanced technical information. • Participate in dedicated workshops and seminars, co-organise workshops on membranes. • Co-finance new research projects on subjects of interest to the industrialists. The Club of Interest already has 47 members, which shows the potential attention given to this structure by external organisations. NanoMemPro has the imperative task to create and stimulate the interest of this Club in order to ensure the durability and the extension of the Network. The involvement of industrialists and end-users will be achieved through an active participation of the Club of Interest members in various workpackages concerned with membrane development and characterisation (WP7-10), applications (WP11.1-4), training (WP12) and dissemination (WP14, WP15).

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WP05 “Create a legal entity” (Coordinator CNRS) In order to reach its ambitious objectives, NanoMemPro needs a permanent and durable legal structure able to establish a supranational and legal frame, to keep the equality of all partners while offering them enough flexibility, to provide the NoE with an instrument to bundle the activities of project coordination, resources (including persons) and finance management and manage the exploitation of research results. The actions to be taken to set up the legal entity are: • Identify the best legal status adapted to NanoMemPro objectives. In a first step the creation of a Non Profit

Organization under the Belgium Law (AISBL) seems to be privileged because it is flexible, versatile, non-restricting for partner institutions, well-adapted to give visibility and autonomy as well as to improve durability of the NoE.

• Negotiate with high authorities of partners to establish the entity framework. • Estimate efforts and costs incurred by the setting up and running of the entity. • Define the rights/obligations granted to partners, the liability of partners. • Establish the rules that will govern the functioning of the entity, the integration of new partners. • Decide on how the entity will be financed, draw up the contract. During the first, while the legal entity is being set up, a temporary solution will be implemented by the Network and the NanoMemPro coordinator for realising successfully the different tasks of the NoE. Liability of public bodies should be further investigated and discussed before the legal structure can be established.

Activity A06 “Set up a European Membrane Technology Platform” (Coordinator IBET)

WP06.1 – Increase financial autonomy and durability (Coordinator CNRS) The purpose of this workpackage is to find the financial means which will permit to increase constantly the financial autonomy of NanoMemPro and to ensure the network durability. This will notably be achieved thanks to the design of financial engineering schemes and the guidance of partnerships and workprogrammes between network members and other relevant actors. This common tool will be implemented in collaboration with the Governing Board orientations, with the Club of Interest initiatives and with the legal entity perspectives. The main tasks of this workpackage are the following: • Estimate network financial needs for the years to come. • Monitor all public/private financing possibilities, from international to regional level. • Implement NanoMemPro strategy vis-à-vis the identified financing means. • Design and start implementing a financial roadmap for the Network The orientation of this workpackage will be subject to an annual assessment of achievements. In relation with WP04, WP06.2 and WP14 an ambitious process of reinforcing the CoI to build up a Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) with the associated Business Plan (BP), intended to give the main direction and to agregate all the Network activities and capacities, will constitute a high priority for the next year of the project. By this way extra financial support should be obtained from industry as well as from various regional, national and international institutions.

WP06.2 – Develop high added value technological services (Coordinator IBET) The objectives are to set up and organise research facilities, equipment, databases and software tools for common use by partners. This EMTP will be the underlying platform for the European Membrane Institute/House of WP01.2 and will provide the appropriate infrastructure for the Joint Research Activities. Information about local facilities and heavy instruments and tools already existing and considered “of excellence” was gathered and organised in an Equipment Database which was made available to the partners of the NoE, the members of the CoI and to external users (after registration). This Equipment Database includes functionalities giving access to the technical characteristics of the equipment, conditions of use and booking procedures. It also allows the hosting institution to prepare reports about the use of the equipement during a given period of time. Taking into consideration the use of the equipement registered in the Database, new instruments considered as necessary will be optimised with respect to financial costs and technical expertise. Work items in this WP include: build up networking of facilities and equipment for common use, extend networking capabilities to operate new remote computer facilities such as webcams, robots… that can monitor a remote experiment, set up knowledge databases, develop software computer packages for common use, complement these electronic means by an infrastructure for efficient transfer of membrane samples that are produced in one lab and have to be analysed in another.

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Beyond participating to research and education tasks, this platform should be considered as a European Innovation Initiative largely opened towards societial demands, thus constituting the very powerful and privileged instrument on which the membrane knowledge-based industry that Europe intends to develop in the field of membrane technologies could rest. It should thus help manufacturing, as well as increasing employment and production of goods.

Joint executed research activities

WP07 “Characterisation of membrane function” (Coordinator UNIZAR) We have achieved a satisfactory review of the work carried out in other projects in the field of micro- and ultrafiltration. A strong need for further work on the harmonisation of methods for the characterisation of flux and retention (MF, UF and NF) has been identified. For this goal, one meeting at the beginning of the period will be employed to discuss and plan the experiments to be performed in the cross-testing. A second meeting (which can be held thanks to the video-conference tool) will be needed to discuss the results. If static characterisation reveals correctly the properties of the material itself, it can approach the membrane function only under certain assumptions and conditions, i.e. through an indirect way. Thus another essential objective will be to settle and develop new on-line dynamic and non-destructive characterisation methods, most appropriate for a direct approach of membrane function. In the period from month 25 to month 42, the following tasks will be carried out: cross checking of characterisation methods, with the aim of a continuous improvement and validation of the tools existing in the network, develop new non-destructive characterisation methods for membranes, after performing the corresponding proofs of principles to validate these new methods. The principles and the particular characteristics of the methods and tools will be made accessible through the European Membrane Institute/House set up in WP01.2. Risks may be technical limitations with on-line characterisation tools. They will be periodically monitored.

WP08 “Modelling and simulation of membrane performance” (Coordinator FORTH/ICE-HT) Modelling and simulation of membrane structure and separation-related transport phenomena can guide the improvement of membrane properties and overall performance. The objectives of the present workpackage are to review modelling methodologies that have been developed specifically for membranes, indicate routes and conditions for application of porous media models to certain classes of membranes (polymeric or inorganic, with emphasis on the nanoscale), prepare the ground for scale-up approaches, and suggest a horizontal integration of simulation efforts focused on the key membrane functions. Plans for the next period include:

- Integration of modelling methodologies developed specifically for membranes - Preparation of the ground for scale-up approaches - Suggestion of a horizontal integration of simulation efforts focused on the key membrane functions

• Organisation of a third workshop (if needed before M36) between NoE partners to discuss the results of allocated exercises and ensure maximum continued cooperation:

- Membrane level integration, process level integration • Finalize integration and dissemination of transport phenomena knowledge (mainly, mass transport by

diffusion mechanisms) across the Network through mutual partner collaboration and exchange of information:

- Atomic and mesoscopic scale depending on controlling pore size • Intensify homogenization of models within the Network:

- Different approaches/simulation models on identical or similar problems through the exercises launched - Interfacing between structure study and transport study (groups of) partners and integrated modelling - Exchange of samples, data, personnel, and codes (when possible) - Conclusion on the potential for unified treatment of membrane modelling by the Network partners

• Continue work on the simulation of membrane-based separation processes (gas, liquid, liquid-solid) and on the simulation of membrane contactors: Scale-up, process-based simulations.

• Initiate an efford to identify the current modelling capabilities with respect to membrane material design and actual separation process.

WP09 “Synthesis optimisation of membrane material” (Coordinator GKSS)

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This workpackage deals with the identification of new breakthrough materials and manufacturing methods. The knowledge of the different partners (from the molecular scale of membrane materials up to the design and fabrication) will be gathered to propose a methodology for membrane synthesis. Plans for the coming 18 months: Following the updated report on breakthrough membrane materials (scheduled at M36), groups of NanoMempro partners with similar interests will be formed (e.g. inorganic membranes, new hybrid materials, self-assembling processes, sol-gel derived membranes, etc.). An important objective is the formation of research teams at a European level.

WP10 “Back-design and mass production of membrane material” (Coordinator ITM-CNR) In the last decades, membrane science and technology has led to significant innovation of relevant interest for a sustainable industrial growth, in both processes and products. However despite their potentialities, emergent membrane operations - such as membrane contactor devices and membrane reactors - actually find few and selected applications on large scale, being these limitations mainly due to still insufficient module design, hydrodynamic studies, or more generally, engineering analysis (the idea of a back-design of material starting from process requirements). The objectives of the present workpackage are: i) to optimize materials and methods related to new membrane operations in order to improve their reliability; ii) to redesign innovative processes characterized by low waste emissions and environmental impact, reduced energy consumption, high quality of final products on large fabrication scales. The first period of research activity will focus on three main tasks: identification of crucial specific membrane parameters necessary for an ideal utilization in the various separation, contactor and reactor systems; performance evaluation of membrane processes as function of: i) typology and morphology of different nanoporous polymeric materials, ii) membrane modules configurations and geometries, iii) operative parameters; study on mass production processes for new barriers and preliminary estimation of production costs Risks of not reaching the milestones may be related to significant difficulties identified for preparing optimal membranes in the different operations considered. However, it is the opinion of the participants that a deep and creative activity will offer opportunities to successfully overcome this problem. General objectives for months 1 to 18 remain unaltered in the next 18-months period. In the first 18 months it was noticed that many activities in membrane development and production take place in emerging countries such as China, Russia and Korea. Activities in these countries should be a guideline for the future developments at European level and therefore it was considered useful to prepare a survey of the current activities in these countries. Furthermore the contacts established between the different partners of WP10 should result in a common research proposal in the EU 7th Framework Programme.

Activity A11 “Applications for well-being and sustainability” (Coordinator UTWente) will be implemented by four workpackages during the next 18-months. The objective is to assess the application of membrane technology in four different areas that are related to production processes, food quality, sustainable energy systems and health, respectively. From a broad point of view these activities should be better focussed with the BP / SRA. The workpackages are introduced below.

WP11.1 “New production processes: system approach” (Coordinator Imperial) Major advances using membrane systems have been made in some areas (water, gas separation), while others remain relatively underdeveloped (organic liquid separations, membrane reactors, nanostructured materials production). But significant fragmentation has reduced the ability of the European membrane research to devise more sustainable processes and thereby meet societal needs. Moreover, no single European group has the critical mass to investigate how best to devise overall membrane systems, taking into account phenomena across the scale spectrum. The goal of workpackage WP11.1 is to develop more sustainable, less hazardous production processes through development and application of membrane system engineering. The workplan for the next 18 months will include: carry on the evaluation of the agreed set of metrics for measuring sustainability and hazard of membrane systems; the metrics were applied to the four production processes already chosen by the participants during the first year and the results will be further refined; advises and collaboration from the industrialists of the Club of Interest will be seeked for the sussesful completion of this task; although the very first steps to understand how molecular architecture of membranes impacts on macro-scale system performance has been performed this task is too complex to be acchieved in 18 months and still far from completion and will be carried out during the next 18 moths period; initiating fabrication of samples of new membrane materials for testing their application in new production systems and finaly a scaling up of the developed new membranes and membrane modules production will be tested.

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WP11.2 “Food quality: safer production methods” (Coordinator ITM-CNR) Membrane processes are today consolidated systems in various food productive sectors, since the separation process is athermal and involves no phase change or chemical agents. The application of these technologies represents one of the most promising answers to the problem of a safe and environmental friendly production. The objective of this workpackage is to develop process intensification strategies in order to redesign the productive cycles by introducing hybrid membrane systems for the production of “new” food with higher quality and nutritional value, better process control and waste management. Another objective will be to benefit from membrane manufacturing knowledge to promote successful technology transfer towards new texturation pathways of foods. In the next 18-months new smooth and well-focused technologies working at the molecular level will be looked at. This will include the study of new packaging material in response to the demand for minimally processed, easily prepared and ready-to-eat “fresh” food products. This will also include the investigation of food components formulation by membrane based processes with the view to understand the relationship between food texture perception and food structure. The main point in this workpackage will be to gather in the frame of the Network all the efforts that are made individually today by the different partners in order to find synergy and to get a less costly efficient research on this field.

WP11.3 “Sustainable energy systems” (Coordinator SINTEF) The goal of the activity is to support the participating organisations to obtain more efficient integrated research in the network by better shearing of accessible resources. Work items for the next 18-months period will focus on development of the integration process through strategic and scientific collaboration. The aim is to establish proposals/projects in FP7 in the field of membrane energy systems, with the initiative taken in the second year as basis. Shearing of partners’ resources, staff mobility, training and education will be important project activities parallel to scientific and technological collaboration. The main risk here is the lack of experience of sharing (leading to lack of lateral thinking) among partners with different expertise and research approaches. To overcome this difficulty, the proposals/projects and a new workshop will be organized to facilitate integration.

WP11.4 “Life support and health” (Coordinator UTwente) Membranes for application in life support systems and health are produced on industrial scale for blood oxygenation and blood detoxification systems. However new therapies or research lines (e.g. bio-artificial organs, tissue engineering) require new properties with respect to material-cell interactions (increased bio-compatibility for blood and/or cell contact, controlled protein adsorption behaviour), membrane fabrication, i.e. new membranes/materials, membrane modification (coating, physisorption, UV and plasma grafting, blending), advanced membrane structures (development of production methods for controlled surface roughness in nm-scale controlled 2D and 3D architecture, track-etching, dense hybrid membranes, phase separation micomoulding, full and hollow fibers from novel polymers, adsorption module preparation with controlled hydrodynamics (alternative for the packed-bed configuration)), membrane characterisation with respect to bio/hemocompatibility (e.g. protein adsorption), and device fabrication (artificial liver, kidney/liver reactor, intracellular lenses, heart valves, microfluidic devices, 3D scaffolds for tissue engineering). The production of drinking water from micro-polluted sources develops into an accepted technology and will become even more relevant to guarantee the sufficient supply of drinking water for citizens. In particular, the viral retention of membranes makes them important for the production of safe water and safe pharmaceutical liquids. Important parameters are material selection and modification, membrane fouling and scaling, module design and construction, module design and safety validation, and performance characterisation of membrane processes. The goal of this workpackage is to integrate R&D activities and competences through commonly executed demonstration projects. The work will be subdivided into 2 major clusters concerned respectively with: (a) bio-artificial organs and (b) sustainable and safe water production. Actions will be: – focus on the integration and synchronization of R&D programmes; – Define an Expression-of-Interest for common research proposals; – ensure that there is no overlapping between the works of the involved partners; – initiate complementary developments and novel research in the above fields;- Definition of common research proposal, -Enhance and support exchange of researchers in this field. The main risk is failing to reach the degree of integration in terms of number of research clusters and number of participating partners. The fall-back scenario defined is to reduce the ambition and the number of research clusters.

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Spreading of excellence activities

WP12 “Joint training and education programme” (Coordinator DTU) By the means of electronic communication, workshops, meetings and trainings this WP aims at extending the excellence by disseminating and sharing a high degree of knowledge. Currently only a few activities are taking place for training researchers in the field of membrane science and technology at the European level (e.g. workshops organized by the European Membrane Society, Marie-Curie-Trainings Site for Membrane Technology at GKSS): NanoMemPro will systematically establish a joint European training programme for the different fields of membrane technology. This will include theoretical education as well as practical training. The Network also aims at setting up and running a European co-advised PhD programme. The workplan for the next 18 months will comprise: analyze expertise, facilities and cooperation modalities for setting up a virtual training centre; identify at least 6 trainings sites among the 13 core members; identify 5 workshop subjects and organise these 5 educational workshops. It will also describe plans for exchange of PhD students between member organisations; plans for exchange of researchers and professors between member organisations for 1 to 6 months periods. It will include the design of a specific Master degree and of a European co-advised PhD programme utilizing resources and facilities of partners’ institutions; establish a close cooperation and information exchange with the European Membrane Society. Efforts will be made to advertise intensively the proposed training programmes; run intra-network training sessions for project management, for the use of the extranet collaborative tool. This task contains no significant risks. Performance and quality indicators will be monitored to implement a continuous improvement process.

Activity A13 “Dissemination of results to scientific community” (Coordinator ICTP) will be implemented by two workpackages during the next 18-months. The objective is to transfer and share the Network knowledge with other researchers at the international level, and also with other European NoEs and IPs in FP6.

WP13.1 “Knowledge transfer and international cooperation” (Coordinator ICTP) The Network will transfer knowledge to the scientific community, keep relationships with third countries open, promote international collaborations with developing countries as well as with the US and Japan, and accept these countries for membership. This decision will be supported by organizing workshops and colloquia on the Network’s research subjects with the greatest possible international visibility, training courses and electronic forums. A new ERASMUS MUNDUS Master degree programme will be prepared together with consortium partners aiming the admission of motivated students from Russia, India, Soth Africa and South America countries. In the next 18-months, work items will be: establish correspondance with representatives of institutions associated to membrane companies in Europe, USA, Japan, Russia, China and South America; identify and use existing resources for international collaboration such as the Iberico-American programme, the INCO and INTAS instruments; use the expertise and the links brought by the CENOBITE network (a member of the Club of Interest); organize a “Membrane Processes Symposium” in the framework of the International Congress on Chemical Engineering CHISA 2007 in Prague; organize Summer Schools on the theoretical and experimental techniques in membrane sciences; adapt and make use of the Network’s websites and information server.

WP13.2 “Cross-linking with other Programmes or Institutions” (Coordinator CNRS) Projects, programmes and institutions will be identified which can be of interest for contact and cross-linking with NanoMemPro. The objective is to develop the communication and networking with them (and notably the other co-ordinated FP6 projects or still running of FP5) through different actions such as workshops specially focused on the activities conducted in NanoMemPro. This objective will be achieved by: identifying and selecting the relevant projects, settling working groups with these projects. The Network will notably use the dedicated info desks set up by the Commission to supply information and assistance in FP6-related issues by thematic priorities and research areas. Thus, it will get the contacts relevant to NanoMemPro and will prepare a directory of relevant resources and tools for membrane research available outside the Network. The cross-feltilization operation started at the beginning of last year with two others NoEs Idecat and Insidepores will be amplified, particularly through common workshops and common proposals at FP7. Other participations of the consortium outside EU are also envisaged. Setting up a Club of Expertise, that would gather outstanding scientific personalities from the Institutions which do not belong to the Network, will also be a privileged way to reinforce NanoMemPro capabilities without weighing down its management by increasing the number of partners.

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Risks of not achieving the stated milestones are minimal. Increased coordination and collaboration will be promoted and reinforced between the various European research programmes.

WP14 “Technology transfer to industry” (Coordinator VITO) Currently, a framework for transferring academic knowledge to a commercial level is missing in Europe: the NanoMemPro Network aims especially at setting up such a framework. This will permit to stimulate technology transfer and collaboration in order to establish permanent interactions between membrane researchers, industries and end-users and thus accelerate new discoveries and industrial applications of membrane technology. The emphasis for the next 18 months will be on bringing technology suppliers and offers into contact, not only virtually via the electronic profiles database, but to explore other ways and look for efficient means to stimulate technology transfer. To create a backbone structure, special attention will be paid to the exploration and mapping of different strategies and techniques that are currently being used in leading institutes. Partners highly involved in this activity domain, are VITO, EMI (UTwente), IBET, SINTEF and GKSS. Partners will also look at the possibilities in their country to establish mechanisms to facilitate special SME/Institutions collaborations. In relation to the SBRA action of W0P6, the importance of organising physical meetings between academia and industry is stressed. This task is strongly related to the pointing out of a long-term strategy plan that is important for industry and end-users. The latter action is also defined as one of the priorities for this WP. WP14 will take the leading role in the organisation of a technology transfer event. This organisation will be done in close collaboration with national membrane organisations and other network initiatives, aiming to combine different initiatives and to avoid an excess of membrane-events. This is needed to ensure a high added value for the network and the industrial stakeholders. Collaboration with the Innovation Relay Centres (IRC) is established. The interaction and involvement of the EBN members, especially the incubators in the different countries; will be intensified. NanoMemPro will further participate in different events organised by EBN members and by IRCs for the promotion of new membrane technologies at regional and European levels.

Activity A15 “NoE communication plan to the Citizen” (Coordinator LUT) will be improuved by two work-packages during the next 18-months. The objective is to inform and share the Network knowledge in an accessible way with the European consumer and citizen.

WP15.1 “Consumers’ concerns and regulations” (Coordinator IBET) The objectives are: to identify amongst consumers, expectations that can be addressed by membrane processes, within a period of 10 years; to tell and explain consumers the potential impact of membrane processes for sustainable development; to answer their questions and their worries. For this purpose, the Network will ask the Club of Interest (industrialists), Non Governmental Organisations and consumers’ organisations, at national and international level, to help define those concerns and expectations. In the next-18 months, work will be focused on the following actions: contact governmental bodies, non governmental organisations, consumers and citizens organisations to propose them to be in the Club of Interest; collect quantitative information regarding citizens’ concerns and expectations in terms of food, health, water, environment, productive processes and energy; review European regulations concerned with membrane development and application; design a procedure to keep citizens and their organisations informed about the Network actions in favour of citizens’ expectations; monitor the impact of the information work developed by the Network towards the citizens and their organisations. A new approach was carried out. An inspection of the IPPC documents was carried out in alternative to the direct contact with citizens’ organizations. In order to answer the (previously identified) citizens’ concerns and expectations, the Network will take care about disseminating information packages (notably through website) about the role and contribution of membrane processes to a sustainable development. Such dissemination inititiatives will be done in close collaboration with the Club of Interest, Non Governmental Organisations and consumers’ organisations. These promoting actions will also include a workshop that will specifically address citizens’ concerns.

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used for pharmaceutical product development, among others) the knowledge of the possibilities offered by membrane technologies is not even known among general students at universities and even less among school children and common citizens. Among all developed initiatives in this WP, some will be especially dedicated to women, under the guidance of the Gender action plan Team. The work items will comprise: Collect background data in the Network to prepare information material on the Network activities that can be easily understood by the common citizen without having a scientific knowledge. Translate this material into the languages used in the European countries and distribute it through at least three different means such as articles in newspapers, school courses at various levels, or TV programmes. Another important work item is to invite school classes to visit universities and research laboratories; they will be shown what the nanoscale is and how our processes can be used practically in everyday life. This will increase their awareness about how people’s health can be improved and on the development of “clean technologies”. The first 24 months (M1-M24) workplan has included the following issues: The work aimed at organising material to be used and submitted to citizens (semi-scientific articles, overheads, web-pages translated and adapted to the different countries), how to organise visits to public schools, to universities and industries (adapted experiments and demonstrations for school children and regular citizens, for students’ standard and their national needs). In each country, some open visits to research labs already exist; partners should be able to adapt a simplified procedure with the support of the Network. The work described in Task 15.2.2 continued with articles and demonstration in schools. The work described in Task 15.2.3, the testing of different methods and collecting data and feedback, was started. The workshop described in Task 15.2.4 was held in M21. Translation of different texts continued (T15.2.5).

The next 18 months (M25-M42) workplan will include the following issues: A workshop will be organised on topics easy to understand for citizens (industry and others) is arranged so that knowledge is transferred from NanoMemPro to other groups where the press and schools will be involved. The work concerning school visits, articles in newspapers and other means to inform the citizens about Membrane Technology will continue. Creation of instructional videos is envisaged in this period (The WP leader has a preliminary plan for the task and the outline is under discussion). Translation of material into other languages will also be continued.

Management activities WP16 “Strategic management” (Coordinator CNRS) This workpackage is dedicated to the implementation of an original strategic management inspired by the principles of the European Foundation Quality Management (EFQM), especially adapted to conduct the network in a durable integration and reach scientific and technical excellence. The work comprises the implementation and improvement of the rules and processes contained in the manual of NanoMemPro management that gives the main decision-making rules and the main procedures regarding the good operation of the Network. In the next-18 months, work items will be the following: the NanoMemPro strategic level coordination and meetings (including minutes), plus the reporting to and from this strategic bodies. It will also assume the project reviews and the production of strategic documents (e.g. main changes in the Network). Moreover it will include interaction of the Network coordinator with the EC (meetings, consolidated reporting) and public relationship (media, industry, institutions, and academia). It will oversee the progress of the NoE towards its objectives, it will define the strategy; decide changes to the consortium and incorporation of new members, modification of budget, adaptation of the Joint Programme of Activities. As regards risks, a continuous improvement of the management processes will be implemented to ensure an increasing quality during the whole network lifetime.

WP17 “Integrative management” (Coordinator CNRS) This workpackage will permit the implementation of the integrative management based upon to the EFQM, and according to the ISO 10006 standard adapted to the NoE requirement for a durable integration of activities. The detailed process management organisation is developed in §8.1. The work-programme includes notably the following tasks: • Management of project integration, particularly the management of interfaces and cooperation, the analysis of

advancement. • Management of the content of the Joint Programme of Activities.

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• Management of delay, costs, resources, communication, purchases, risks management management of degree of excellence, management of legal and administrative aspects, obtaining audit certificates any financial security such as bank guarantees.

After implementation of the whole management system, the task is to monitor the good functioning and set up the necessary corrections according to the continuous improvement principle necessary to advance through the integration and attain excellence. The work also includes the periodic update of the project documents related to the different processes (progress reports, work-plan, cost statements, communication reports) and the supervision of the preparation of the different deliverables and technical reports from the Activities and WP. The Network co-ordinator will rely on the implemented management system and processes throughout the project. He will manage the interface between the different management modules. The work also includes supervising the preparation of the different deliverables produced by the workpackages, and organising the necessary meetings (Executive Committee, reviews with the Commission…). An annual assessment on the progress of the integration and the partners’ plans for future strategy to attain excellence will be submitted to the Commission.

WP18 “Activity and Workpackage management” (Coordinator CNRS) This workpackage will take care of ensuring that correct procedures are carried out and deadlines and obligations are respected. The task includes the establishment, implementation, follow up and improvement of management procedures according to the ISO 10006 project management standard for the organisation of each activity and their workpackages. These procedures will define the decision making method in each activity as well as the links with the other levels of management. Each leader will base Activity and WP management on the principles of the ISO 10006 project management standard. Activities and WP leaders will be appointed to prepare, carry out, disseminate and exploit the results and progresses. Each leader will be responsible for his Activity or WP progress and deliverable. The workplan for the next 18-months will focus mainly on the administrative and technical support of the Activities and WP. WP coordinators will prepare and submit all the necessary financial, technical and progress information to the integrative process team to consolidate the overall Network progress. WP coordinators will also supervise the preparation of deliverables, cost statements, publications; they will monitor the WP execution and solve potential conflicts. This workpackage will take care of periodic update of the Activities and WP documents (Work plan, internal procedures), of supervision of preparation of reports, cost statements, publications. It will prepare and submit all the necessary information and reporting to the integrative management team in order to analyse and monitor progress, results and performances by the network. Finally, it coordinates the organisation of internal Activity and WP meetings, as well as meetings between WP or Management bodies, and Contribute to the effective internal communication of the network, by the means of an internal technical and management activity report). Main risks foreseen are the occurrence of delays in the plans and the contractual deliveries. Such delays will be anticipated by strict supervision procedures in order to remedy as soon as possible any deviations to the plans.

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9.2 Planning and timetable

Integrating Activities

A01 Towards a European Membrane Laboratorium

WP01.1 Integrate knowledge management

Task 01.1.5: Procedure for following up project initiatives

Task 01.1.6: Management of Training Programs

Task 01.1.7: Training on Management for young scientists

WP01.2 Share and reinforce tools and facilities

Task 01.2.2: Settling of poles

Task 01.2.3: Upgrading of poles

Task 01.2.4: Information

Task 01.2.5: Organise Topical Working parties (per category of equipement)

Task 01.2.6: Organise Technical Schools

A02 Consolidation of the integrated organisations

WP02.1 Adaptation of organisation activities

Task 02.1.1: Information meetings

Task 02.1.2: Visits of laboratories

Task 02.1.3: Reorganisation at the institutional level

Task 02.1.4: Access to permanent positions for external researchers by improving information circulation and suppressing potential barriers

Task 02.1.5: Reorganisation around the SBRA

WP02.2 Reinforce electronic communication and networking

Task 02.2.1: Implementation of a video webconferencing tool

Task 02.2.2: Newsletter publication

Task 02.2.3: Improve and extend the use of video webconferencing tool

A03 WP03 Plan for staff mobility and work positions

Task 03.3: Investigation of instruments for financing mobility

Task 03.4: Qualitative issues of mobility

Task 03.5: Set up internal financial incentive for mobility

Task 03.6: Exchange of Postdoctotral felows

A04 WP04 Integrate the Club of Interest in the NoE framework

Task 04.1: Publication of CoI newsletter

Task 04.2: Develop new activities within the network based on CoI recommendations

Task 04.3: Put in action the two-way training/experience exchange scheme between NoE and CoI

Task 04.4: Scheme for participation of industrials to the Network’s financial sustainability and durability

Task04.5: Distribution of information about NoE to new industrials

Task Work package

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Integrating Activities

A05 WP05 Create a legal entity

Task 05.3: Drafting the legal entity statutes

Task 05.4: Setting-up of the Legal entity

A06 Set up a European Membrane Technology Platform

Task 06.1.2: Monitor constantly all public/private financing possibilities, from international to regional level

Task 06.1.3: Design the Strategic Business Research Agenda (SBRA)

Task 06.1.4: Implement the Strategic Business Research Agenda (SBRA)

WP06.2 Develop high added value technological services

Task 06.2.3: Develop new software tools for modelling and simulation, for common use

Task 06.2.4: Extend electronic communication

Task 06.2.5: Develop an efficient infrastructure for the transfer of membrane samples

Task Work package

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Jointly Executed Research Activities

A07 WP07 Characterisation of membrane function

Task 07.4: Proof of principles for two new characterization methods

Task 07.5: Building two new characterization apparatus

Task 07.8: Cross testing and harmonization

Task 07.9: Transfer of SBRA recommendations at WP level

A08 WP08 Modelling and simulation of membrane performance

Task 08.2-08.3: Integration of atomistic transport simulations

Task 08.4-08.5: Permeation models and simulators for microporous and mesoporous inorganic materials

Task 08.6: Macroscopic transport simulations for solution-diffusion membranes

Task 08.7: Modelling of the dense ceramic and hybrid (polymeric-inorganic) membranes

Task 08.8: Modelling of membrane-based separation processes

Task 08.9: Process scale simulation and membrane performance

Task 08.10: Transfer of SBRA recommendations at WP level

A09 WP09 Synthesis optimisation of membrane material

Task 09.1: Update of report on fabrication methods identified as breakthrough technologies

Task 09.2: Implementation of R&D programmes based on new materials and membrane formation technologies

Task 09.3: Integration of industrial partners in the Network's research teams within the framework of the SBRA

Task 09.4: Transfer of SBRA recommendations at WP level

Task Work package

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A10 WP10 Back-design and mass production of membrane material

Task 10.1: Involve technology suppliers for nanostructuring materials

Task 10.4: Define a roadmap to upscaling principles (goals, deliverables, methodologies, risks, pitfalls, …)

Task 10.5: Execution of the demonstration project(s) identified in the first 24 months period

Task 10.6: Organize a workshop on the execution of the demonstration project(s) identified in the first 24 months period

Task 10.7: Preparation of a survey of the membrane activities in China, Korea and Russia

Task 10.8: Preparation of at least one proposal for a common research project

Task 10.9: Transfer of SBRA recommendations at WP level

A11 Applications for well-being and sustainability

WP11.1 New production processes: system approach

Task 11.1.3: Effect of the membrane architecture on the overall system performance

Task 11.1.4: Fabrication of new membranes with properties “designed” for the production processes selected during the first two year period

Task 11.1.5: “Green” metrics evaluation

Task 11.1.6: Transfer of SBRA recommendations at WP level

WP11.2 Food quality: safer production methods

Task 11.2.1: Investigate new means to overcoming the existing problems

Task 11.2.2: Conduct new specific researches on new films built from natural biopolymers

Task 11.2.3: Control the texture of food starting from the food molecular ingredients

Task 11.2.4: Optimisation of integrated membrane operations

Task 11.2.5: Organize a workshop on “Safe and sustainable production methods in food industry”

Task 11.2.6: Transfer of SBRA recommendations at WP level

WP11.3 Sustainable energy systems

Task 11.3.6: Organise a workshop following up the R&D projects

Task 11.3.7: Integrate the Partners capabilities

Task 11.3.8: Transfer of SBRA recommendations at WP level

WP11.4 Life support and health

Task 11.4.:1 Bio-artificial organs

Task 11.4.2: Sustainable and safe water production

Task 11.4.3: Transfer of SBRA recommendations at WP level

Task Work package

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Spreading of Excellence Activities

A12 WP12 Joint training and education programme

Task 12.5: Development of European Scientific Master

Task 12.6: Development of European Doctorate School

Task 12.7: Exchange of researchers and key staff

Task 12.8: Intensive advertisement of the different training options via Internet, publications of the European Membrane Society and other means

Task 12.9: Organisation of trainings workshops on membrane manufacturing, membrane characterisation, and molecular modelling

A13 Dissemination of results to scientific community

WP13.1 Knowledge transfer and international cooperation

Task 13.1.1: International symposia and workshops

Task 13.1.2: Summer schools and training courses

Task 13.1.3: Practical training in the advanced experimental techniques

Task 13.1.4: Participation of a limited number of participants from the third countries in the training and knowledge transfer consortium activities

WP13.2: Cross-linking with other Programmes or Institutions

Task 13.2.2: Settling a Club of Expertise

Task 13.2.3 : Develop international collaborations

Task 13.2.4 : Develop collaborations with other NoE and other FP6 instruments projets

A14 WP14 Technology transfer to industry

Task 14.2: Organisation of a brokerage event

Task 14.4: Mapping of technological challenges

A15 NoE Communication plan to the Citizen

WP15.1 Consumers’ concerns and regulations

Task 15.1.1: Contact governmental bodies, non governmental organisations and consumer’s organisations

Task 15.1.3: Prepare information packages

Task 15.1.4: Dissemination actions in order to answer the citizens’ concerns and expectations

Task 15.1.5: Monitor the impact of the dissemination actions

Task 15.1.6: Follow and/or participate in the making of regulations

WP15.2 Strengthening Citizens' awareness in science

Task 15.2.1: Collect data to transfer to citizens

Task 15.2.4: Workshop on the efficiency of this type of science transfer

Task 15.2.5: Translation of material into other languages

Task 15.2.6: Creation videos

Task Work package

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Management Activities

A16 WP16 Strategic management

Task 16.1: Implementation and improvement of the manual of management rules and processes

Task 16.2: Evaluation of the partners' understanding and implementation of the strategic management

Task 16.3: Strategic management improvement

A17 WP17 Integrative management

Task 17.1: Integrative management improvement

A18 WP18 Activity and Workpackage management

Task 18.1: Administrative and technical support of the Activities and WP

Task Work package

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9.3 Graphical presentation of work packages

Spread of Excellence

Joint Research

Management

A16 Strategic

management

A18 Activity and

Workpackage management

A17 Integrative

management

A11 Applications for well being and sustainability

Integration Activities

A04 Integrate the Club of Interest in the NoE framework

A02 Consolidation of the integrated organisations

A03 Plan for staff

mobility and work positions

A14 Technology

transfer to industry

A12 Joint training and

education programme

A15 NoE

communication plan to the Citizen

A13 Dissemination of

results to scientific community

A08 Modelling and simulation of membrane

performance

A09 Synthesis

optimisation of membrane material

A10 Back-design and

mass production of membrane material

A07 Characterisation of membrane function

A01 Towards a European Membrane

Laboratorium

A06 Set up a European

Membrane Technology Platform

A05 Create a legal

entity

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Activity/WP N°

Workpackage title Leader Start

month End

month Deliverable

N°

A01

WP01.1 Integrate knowledge management SINTEF M25 M42 D01.1.6, D01.1.7, D01.1.8

WP01.2 Share and reinforce tools and facilities CNRS M25 M42 D01.2.4 A02 WP02.1 Adaptation of organisation activities CNRS M25 M42 D02.1.4, D02.1.5

WP02.2 Reinforce electronic communication and networking UTwente M25 M42 D02.2.1, D02.2.3,

D02.2.4 A03

WP03 Plan for staff mobility and work positions CNRS M25 M42 D03.3, D03.5 A04

WP04 Integrate the Club of Interest in the NoE framework Imperial M25 M42 D04.1, D04.3, D04.4

A05 WP05 Create a legal entity CNRS M25 M42 D05.2, D05.3

A06 WP06.1 Increase financial autonomy and durability CNRS M25 M42 D06.1.2, D06.1.3

WP06.2 Develop high added value technological services IBET M25 M42 D06.2.4, D06.2.5, D06.2.6

A07 WP07 Characterisation of membrane function UNIZAR M25 M42 D07.5, D07.6

A08

WP08 Modelling and simulation of membrane performance

FORTH/ ICE-HT M25 M42 D08.3

A09 WP09 Synthesis optimisation of membrane material GKSS M25 M42 D09.2, D09.3

A10

WP10 Back-design and mass production of membrane material ITM-CNR M25 M42 D10.4, D10.5

A11

WP11.1 New production processes: system approach Imperial M25 M42 D11.1.2, D11.1.3, D11.1.4

WP11.2 Food quality: safer production methods ITM-CNR M25 M42 D11.2.4, D11.2.5

WP11.3 Sustainable energy systems SINTEF M25 M42 D11.3.4, D11.3.5, D11.3.6, D11.3.7

WP11.4 Life support and health UTwente M25 M42 D11.4.2, D11.4.3 A12

WP12 Joint training and education programme DTU M25 M42 D12.2, D12.3, D12.4, D12.5, D12.6

A13

WP13.1 Knowledge transfer and international cooperation ICTP M25 M42 D13.1.1, D13.1.2, D13.1.3

WP13.2 Cross-linking with other Programmes or Institutions CNRS M25 M42 D13.2.3

A14 WP14 Technology transfer to industry Vito M25 M42 D14.2, D14.3

A15 WP15.1 Consumers’ concerns and regulations IBET M25 M42 D15.1.4 WP15.2 Strengthening citizens’ awareness in science LUT M25 M42 D15.2.4, D15.2.5

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Activity/WP N°

Workpackage title Leader Start

month End

month Deliverable

N°

WP16 Strategic management CNRS M25 M42 D16.2 A17

WP17 Integrative management CNRS M25 M42 D17.1 A18

WP18 Activity and Workpackage management CNRS M25 M42 D18.1 9.5 Deliverables list

Deliverable N°1

Deliverable title Lead part.

Delivery date 2

Nature 3

Disseminationlevel 4

WP01.1 - Integrate knowledge management

D01.1.6 Procedure for knowledge management related to project initiatives SINTEF M25 O PP

D01.1.7 Report on the ability and the capacity of partners to send and receive students for training SINTEF M40 R PP

D01.1.8 Report on the management training programs developed in the network SINTEF M40 R PP

WP01.2 - Share and reinforce tools and facilities

D01.2.4 Report on up-graded equipments, new recommendations and scientific poles. CNRS M38 R CO

WP02.1 - Adaptation of organisation activities

D02.1.4

Updated commitment of partners’ Top management as regards the virtual Integrated Membrane Laboratory CNRS M28 R CO

D02.1.5

Written commitment of each partner’s Top management to all financial, managerial and strategic details of the aimed virtual Integrated Membrane Laboratory CNRS M36 R CO

WP02.2 - Reinforce electronic communication and networking

D02.2.1 Electronic Newsletter UTwenteM30, 36, 42 R PP

D02.2.3 Report on the implementation of a video webconferencing tool UTwente M27 R PP

D02.2.4 Evaluation report and future perspectives UTwente M42 R PP

1 Deliverable numbers in order of delivery dates: D1 – Dn 2 Month in which the deliverables will be available or milestone achieved. Month 0 marking the start of the project, and all dates being relative to this start date. 3 Please indicate the nature of a deliverable using one of the following codes: R = Report P = Prototype D = Demonstrator O = Other If milestone, indicate with M 4 Please indicate the dissemination level for deliverables using one of the following codes: PU = Public PP = Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission Services). RE = Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the Commission Services). CO = Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including the Commission Services).

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Deliverable

N°1 Deliverable title

Lead part.

Delivery date 2

Nature 3

Disseminationlevel 4

WP03 - Plan for staff mobility and work positions

D03.3 Staff mobility plan derived from the Strategic Business/Research Agenda CNRS M33 R CO

D03.5 Progress report on the WP activity, including special section on the Post doc programme (Task 03.6) CNRS M42 R CO

WP04 - Integrate the Club of Interest in the NoE framework

D04.1

Club of Interest Newsletter (the publication of CoI newsletter will continue as agreed on the pages of European Membrane News) Imperial

M30, 36, 42 R PU

D04.3

Prepare recommendations for new activities within the network based on the road-mapping exercises and other CoI suggestions Imperial M35 R CO

D04.4 Prepare at least one project proposal involving CoI partners Imperial M36 O RE

WP05 - Create a legal entity D05.2 AISBL: statutes reviewed CNRS M28 R CO

D05.3 Setting up an AISBL for the aimed virtual Integrated Membrane Laboratory CNRS M36 O PU

WP06.1 – Increase financial autonomy and durability

D06.1.2 Presentation of technological roadmaps: 2nd report of SBRA operation CNRS M30 R CO

D06.1.3 Translating technological roadmaps into SBRA as a guideline for AISBL: Oral presentation to EC CNRS M34 O CO

WP06.2 – Develop high added value technological services

D06.2.4 Develop an efficient infrastructure for the transfer of membrane samples IBET M30 R CO

D06.2.5 Create a relational database gathering information about membrane materials and their performance IBET M36 R CO

D06.2.6 Develop and validate new software tools for modelling and simulation of selected case studies IBET M42 R CO

WP07 - Characterisation of membrane function D07.5 Second report on cross-testing and harmonisation UNIZAR M36 R CO

D07.6 Report on building up and testing two new non-destructive characterisation methods UNIZAR M39 R CO

WP08 - Modelling and simulation of membrane performance

D08.3 Modelling capabilities to predict membrane performance and role during process operation

FORTH/ICE-HT M36 R CO

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Deliverable N°1

Deliverable title Lead part.

Delivery date 2

Nature 3

Disseminationlevel 4

WP09 – Synthesis optimisation of membrane material D09.2 Updated report on breakthrough technologies GKSS M27, 36 R CO

D09.3 Set-up of European Research team for a project on new membrane materials GKSS M25, 36 R CO

WP10 – Back-design and mass production of membrane material

D10.4 Report on the membrane activities in China, Korea and Russia

ITM-CNR M30 R CO

D10.5 Report on the first demonstration ITM-CNR M30 R CO

WP11.1 – New production processes: system approach

D11.1.2 Agreement on set of desired membrane molecular properties Imperial M25 R PP

D11.1.3 Summary report on the green metrics Imperial M35 R PP

D11.1.4

With help from GKSS start exploiting the transferred casting machine and production of new solvent resistant membrane modules Imperial M36 P PU

WP11.2 - Food quality: safer production methods

D11.2.4 Organization of a workshop on “Safe and sustainable production methods in food industry”

ITM-CNR M42 O PP

D11.2.5

Clustering of interactions between bioactive macromolecules and membranes, and identification of resulting properties of the nanostructured biohybrid membrane systems

ITM-CNR M48 R CO

WP11.3 - Sustainable energy systems

D11.3.4 Draft “Road Map” report for membranes in sustainable energy systems. Related to task 11.3.5 SINTEF M30 O PP

D11.3.5 Workshop conducted. Related to task 11.3.6 SINTEF M25 O PP D11.3.6 One or more collaborated project running SINTEF M38 R PP

D11.3.7 Workshop to discuss and update EU proposals to be sent SINTEF M42 O PP

WP11.4 - Life support and health

D11.4.2 Expression-of-Interest for common research proposals UTwente M27 R CO

D11.4.4 Report Evaluation and Future prospects UTwente M40 R CO WP12 - Joint training and education programme

D12.2 Updated programme and general organization for a Scientific Master degree CNRS

M28, M40 R CO

D12.3 Report on status of European Doctorate School ITM-CNR

M28, M40 R CO

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Deliverable N°1

Deliverable title Lead part.

Delivery date 2

Nature 3

Disseminationlevel 4

D12.4

Review on the workshops organised by the consortium, evaluation of their impact on the project scope

GKSS/ DTU M36 R CO

D12.5 Evaluation of the interest in the exchange of PhD students, quantified review on exchange activity

GKSS/ DTU M36 R CO

D12.6

Evaluation of the interest in the exchange of researchers and key staff, quantified review on exchange activity

GKSS/ DTU M36 R CO

WP13.1 – Knowledge transfer and international cooperation

D13.1.1 Review and evaluation of the workshops and international symposia organised by the consortium ICTP M36 R CO

D13.1.2

Evaluation of the interest in the summer schools and courses organised by the consortium and theirs impact on the project results dissemination and consortium knowledge transfer management ICTP M36 R CO

D13.1.3 Evaluation of the contribution of the cooperation with third countries partners ICTP M36 R CO

WP13.2 – Cross-linking with other Programmes or Institutions D13.2.3 Club of Expertise: settling and working rules CNRS M30 R CO

WP14 – Technology transfer to industry

D14.2 Organisation of a European Technology Transfer Fair, co-organised by the consortium Vito M34 O PU

D14.3 Report on Technology transfer strategies applied by leading technology institutes Vito M30 R CO

WP15.1 – Consumers’ concerns and regulations D15.1.4 Monitor impact of the dissemination actions IBET M36 R CO

WP15.2 – Strengthening citizens’ awareness in science

D15.2.4 Workshop results and perception of results and feedback LUT M26 R CO

D15.2.5 First videos created LUT M36 O PU WP16 – Strategic management

D16.2 Strategic, decisions and orientations management report CNRS

M28, 36 R RE, CO

WP17 - Integrative management

D17.1 Annual Management report (including resources assessment and financial progress reports) CNRS

M25, 37 R RE, CO

WP18 - Activity and Workpackage management

D18.1 Semi-annual activities and WP progress report CNRS M30, 36, 42 R RE, CO

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9.6 Work package descriptions

WP01.1 – INTEGRATE KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

Work-package number WP01.1 Start date or starting event: M25

Activity Type 1 Integrating Activities Participant id

CNRS

Impe

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IBE

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GK

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FORT

H/

ICE

-HT

Vito

SIN

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UTw

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UN

IZA

R

LUT

ITM

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ICTP

DTU

Person-months per participant:

2,1 1,0 1,2 3,0 0,3 0,2 1,6 0,2 0,1 0,3 1,0 0,8 0,3

Objectives

• Develop education programmes for undergraduate and graduate students up to PhD level. • Continue developing transparent procedures to distribute information about Network activities. • Continue developing procedures for handling of research results and project information inside the network.

Description of work Task 01.1.5: Procedure for following up project initiatives Starting date: M14 End date: M42 A procedure for following up knowledge management in project initiatives between NoE Partners and possibly members of CoI will be developed. Partners involved: CNRS, Imperial, IBET, GKSS, FORTH/ICE-HT, Vito, UTwente, UNIZAR, LUT, ITM-CNR, ICTP, DTU, SINTEF, Members of CoI

Task 01.1.6: Management of Training Programs for students Starting date:M24 End date:M48 In collaboration with WP12 members working on the establishment of European Education programs on Membranes Science and Technology, effort will focus on the management of training programs for undergraduate and graduate students. This task will focus on generating programs for students to work in different Partners laboratories for a time scale of 4-6 months. The task will be developed together with WP03 and WP12. Partners involved: CNRS, Imperial, IBET, GKSS, FORTH/ICE-HT, Vito, UTwente, UNIZAR, LUT, ITM-CNR, ICTP, DTU, SINTEF

Task 01.1.7: Training on Management for young scientists Starting date:M24 End date:M48 To develop a program for the training of PhD students and post-docs in project management. The Partners capability and interest in this activity will be investigated in order to define relevant training courses. Partners involved: CNRS, Imperial, IBET, GKSS, FORTH/ICE-HT, Vito, UTwente, UNIZAR, LUT, ITM-CNR, ICTP, DTU, SINTEF

Deliverables D01.1.6 Procedure for knowledge management related to project initiatives (M25) D01.1.7 Report on the ability and the capacity of partners to send and receive students for training (M40) D01.1.8 Report on the management training programs developed in the network (M40)

Milestones and expected result M01.1.3 Workshop conducted. Related to task T01.1.4 (M25) M01.1.4 Questionnaire sent to the Partners requesting information on their capabilities to receive training students (M36) M01.1.5 Questionnaire sent to the Partners requesting information on the management training programs developed in their institution (M36) 1 For Networks of Excellence each WP must relate to one (and only one) of the following two possible Activity Types: ‘Other specific activities’ (which include Integrating Activities, Jointly Executed Research Activities, Spreading of Excellence Activities), and ‘Management Activities’

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WP01.2 – SHARE AND REINFORCE TOOLS AND FACILITIES

Work-package number WP01.2 Start date or starting event: M25

Activity Type Integrating Activities Participant id

CN

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Impe

rial

IBE

T

GK

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FORT

H/

ICE

-HT

Vito

SIN

TEF

UTw

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UN

IZA

R

LUT

ITM

-CN

R

ICTP

DTU

Person-months per participant:

4,4 1,0 1,5 3,0 1,0 0,5 1,2 0,7 1,8 0,6 1,5 1,5 0,3

Objectives

• Up-date the inventory and potential use of existing facilities and tools for each partner. • Collect information on specific facilities and access regulation. • Organise working parties to define the strategy for tools development within the network. • Organise topical schools on the major types of equipments. • Define a work plan to rationalise and organise specialised poles (laboratories) in the Network. • Plan financial and technical means necessary for adapting and upgrading specific tools and facilities in

response to the needs of the joint research activities.

Description of work Task 01.2.2: Settling of poles Starting date: M18 End date: M42 All the available facilities will be organised in scientific poles and completed with additional services. In order to gain efficiency and quality, each partner will be asked to focus on specific activities for its own tools and facilities (membrane processing, or material characterisation, or membrane testing in specific areas or process engineering…). After a working party on Scattering techniques, we plan to work on microscopic techniques (including close field microcopies), surface properties characterisation, and porometric techniques. The interest to work on chemical analysis and pilot plants facilities will be discussed during the period and working parties implemented. Partners involved: All

Task 01.2.3: Upgrading of poles Starting date: M24 End date: M42 The financial and technical means required will be identified and a plan for adapting and upgrading the poles to the needs of tasks WP07 to WP11 (jointly executed research activities) will be proposed. Partners involved: All

Task 01.2.4: Information Starting date: M15 End date: M42 A guide on specific facilities and access specification will be edited as well as electronic information and communication, and will be supplied to the NanoMemPro consortium. Specific emphasis will be put on standardising the interfaces and procedures that are necessary to the efficient exchange of data and correct interpretation of results obtained by different research groups. Partners involved: All

Task 01.2.5: Organise Topical Working parties (per category of equipment) Starting date: M13 End date: M42 Technicians and scientists in charge of equipments/facilities will organise forums and meetings so as to define the type of up-grade that would be necessary for the existing facilities, as well as the type of equipment that is not available yet within the network, but which would be essential to provide the NoE researchers. Partners involved: All

Task 01.2.6: Organise Technical Schools Starting date: M18 End date: M42 Working parties will organise technical schools to teach the theory and practice of each piece of equipment, in relation to their applications in membrane technology. Such schools would be organised where the available

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equipment is the most important, either qualitatively or quantitatively. There will be opportunities for some of the analytical tools to perform round robin tests (e.g. several operators, with the same sample on the same apparatus), and then improve the general proficiency with respect to these equipments. Partners involved: All

Deliverables D01.2.4 Report on up-graded equipments, new recommendations and scientific poles (M38)

Milestones and expected result M01.2.3 Decision on supporting the up-grade and acquisition of equipments (M30) M01.2.4 Decision on supporting the up-grade and acquisition of equipments (second row) (M42)

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WP02.1 – ADAPTATION OF ORGANISATION ACTIVITIES

Work-package number WP02.1 Start date or starting event: M25

Activity Type Integrating Activities Participant id

CN

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Impe

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IBE

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GK

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FORT

H/

ICE

-HT

Vito

SIN

TEF

UTw

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UN

IZA

R

LUT

ITM

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R

ICTP

DTU

Person-months per participant:

3,9 1,2 1,2 2,0 0,3 0,2 1,2 0,3 0,2 0,9 1,0 0,8 0,5

Objectives

• Build a strategic scheme clearly indicating the involvement of the Network researchers in the four working areas, the six common actions and the four main applications according to their own expertise.

• Adjust the Network research projects with respect to the framework of the Network activities and the SBRA.

• Investigate the different nationally-funded programmes on membranes and encourage national organisations to redirect a part of funding towards the Network priorities.

• Organize the opening of facilities to all the Network members as well as to external patners.

Description of work Task 02.1.1: Information meetings Starting date: M01 End date: M42 Regular meetings held first at the level of each partner, then by associating the researchers according to their expertise or their implication in a specific scientific project rather than according to their membership in a national structure. Partners involved: CNRS, Imperial, IBET, GKSS, FORTH/ICE-HT, Vito, SINTEF, UTwente, UNIZAR, LUT, ITM-CNR, ICTP, DTU

Task 02.1.2: Visits of laboratories Starting date: M01 End date: M42 Visits of laboratories and research centres in the NoE to evaluate the various means at the disposal of each one and what could be done to reorganise them in the best possible way. Partners involved: CNRS, Imperial, IBET, GKSS, FORTH/ICE-HT, Vito, SINTEF, UTwente, UNIZAR, LUT, ITM-CNR, ICTP, DTU

Task 02.1.3: Reorganisation at the institutional level Starting date: M09 End date: M42 Meetings with Institutions and Organisations to explain the Network’s scientific policy, present the principles leading to integration and the first beneficial effects. Concrete proposals and accompanying measures will be elaborated to help the organisations. Partners involved: CNRS, Imperial, IBET, GKSS, FORTH/ICE-HT, Vito, SINTEF, UTwente, UNIZAR, LUT, ITM-CNR, ICTP, DTU

Task 02.1.4: Access to permanent positions for external researchers by improving information circulation and suppressing potential barriers Starting date: M18 End date: M42 Potential incompatibilities between national and European research structures will be carefully studied. Partners could negotiate exceptional temporary authorizations so as to demonstrate the advantages of networking research over national programmes. Partners involved: CNRS, Imperial, IBET, GKSS, FORTH/ICE-HT, Vito, SINTEF, UTwente, UNIZAR, LUT, ITM-CNR, ICTP, DTU Task 02.1.5: Reorganisation around the SBRA Starting date: M25 End date: M42 Partners involved: CNRS, Imperial, IBET, GKSS, FORTH/ICE-HT, Vito, SINTEF, UTwente, UNIZAR, LUT, ITM-CNR, ICTP, DTU

Deliverables D02.1.4 Updated commitment of partners’ Top management as regards the virtual Integrated Membrane Laboratory (M28)

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D02.1.5 Written commitment of each partner’s Top management to all financial, managerial and strategic details of the aimed virtual Integrated Membrane Laboratory (M36)

Milestones and expected result M02.1.1 Redirect the works of researchers according to the NoE roadmap (M36) M02.1.2 Open facilities to NoE partners and modify their organisation if necessary (M30)

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WP02.2 – REINFORCE ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION AND NETWORKING

Work-package number WP02.2 Start date or starting event: M25

Activity Type Integrating Activities Participant id

CNRS

Impe

rial

IBE

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GK

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FORT

H/

ICE

-HT

Vito

SIN

TEF

UT

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UN

IZA

R

LUT

ITM

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R

ICTP

DTU

Person-months per participant:

2,1 1,1 1,2 2,0 0,3 0,0 0,1 1,2 0,5 0,0 1,5 2,0 0,2

Objectives Fully implement a secure video webconferencing tool and maintain the already existing collaborative tool for effective and protected communication between the participants. Main objectives will be: • Improve and extend the use and organization of Project Place (extranet collaborative tool). • Implementation of a secure video webconferencing tool. • Manage audio/video conferencing through this tool. • Reinforce networking capabilities for e-learning.

Description of work Task 02.2.1: Implementation of a video webconferencing tool Starting date: M13 End date: M42 This tool will enable audio/video conferencing and will also provide a platform for E-learning and discussion forums. Although real discussions and meetings have a very important function within the Network, the installation of this video webconferencing tool provides additional ways of communication. It serves as a support to real time meetings. Modules for audio and video conferencing will be improved, and new ones for E-learning and discussion forums will be installed. Partners involved: All partners Task 02.2.2: Newsletter publication Starting date: M01 End date: M42 To inform the partners about the project and to provide them with the required project information, electronic newsletters will be published at regular intervals to inform partners on the progress of activities, the scientific news related to the project, the agenda and venue of the coming meetings, as well as relevant news from the 7th Framework Programme, and in particular the various possibilities for other collaborative opportunities. Partners involved: All partners Task 02.2.3: Improve and extend the use of video webconferencing tool Starting date: M25 End date: M42 Central to the integration of laboratories is the discussion in the heart of the laboratory processes. This will require easy and simple ways to contact people, identify information about the network and discussions with colleagues. Continuous improvement and extension with respect to the use of this tool is an important task in this WP. Partners involved: All partners

Deliverables D02.2.1 Electronic Newsletter (M30, M36, M42) D02.2.3 Report on the implementation of a video webconferencing tool (M27) D02.2.4 Evaluation report and future perspectives (M42)

Milestones and expected result M02.2.3 Assessment of the video webconferencing tool (M30) M02.2.4 Evaluation of the video webconferencing tool (M41)

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WP03 – PLAN FOR STAFF MOBILITY AND WORK POSITIONS

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Objectives

• Improve information about mobility: NoE Web site for EU and foreign membrane researchers, Membrane Job market, CV data base, useful links …

• Improve the provision of practical assistance to researchers: Job Market News, Career Transition, Career and Job Hunting Advice, Post-doc and Faculty Issues, Science Policy, legal and administrative matters, training facilities, practical information on accommodation, balancing family and career goals, …

• Encourage benchmarking exercises, Marie-Curie projects, and other ways to attract talents.

Description of work Task 03.3: Investigation of instruments for financing mobility Starting date: M06 End date: M42 Investigation of instruments for financing mobility by individuals or groups of NoE partners: Research Training Networks, Early Stage Training, Transfer of Knowledge, Conferences and Training Courses, Individual Fellowships, Promotion of Scientific Excellence, Return & Reintegration Mechanisms. Other ways of getting financial support will be investigated through the European Science Foundation, the Club of Interest, in cooperation with WP06.1. Partners involved: All

Task 03.4: Qualitative issues of mobility Starting date: M09 End date: M30 The Network will encourage, where appropriate, the organisation of inter-directorial meetings on current obstacles of direct concern to develop integrated strategies for the mobility of researchers. A benchmarking exercise on mobility will be initiated with focus on the improvement of mobility opportunities. Partners involved: All

Task 03.5: Set up internal financial incentive for mobility Starting date: M13 End date: M42 Investigate Marie Curie instruments still open and eventually prepare application to the new People programme (in conjunction with WP06.1). Implement the SCF Marie Curie grant, as soon as the negotiation with the Commission is finished. Partners involved: All Task 03.6: Exchange of Postdoctoral fellows Starting date: M25 End date: M36 A series of Post Doctoral fellowships, co-sponsored by the NoE common budget and by industrialists, will be proposed on jointly agreed topics. We aim at financing 10-15 positions, each for a duration of 12 months. In each case, it will be compulsory that the scientists spend a significant amount of time in several partners institutes/universities. Partners involved: All + CoI

Deliverables D03.3 Staff mobility plan derived from the Strategic Business/Research Agenda (M33) D03.5 Progress report on the WP activity, including special section on the Post doc programme (Task 03.6) (M42)

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Milestones and expected result M03.1 Membrane Mobility Forum (M36) M03.2 Assessment Meeting (M36) M03.3 Meeting of the Post-docs appointed on this programme (Task 03.6) and of their supervisors – Programme assessment and recommendations (M34)

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WP04 – INTEGRATE THE CLUB OF INTEREST IN THE NOE FRAMEWORK

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Objectives

• A two-way exchange between the Consortium and the Club of Interest. • Bringing knowledge on industrial and consumer needs to the Consortium. • Defining directions and topics for further research by Consortium. • Providing Club of Interest with access to most recent advances in membrane technology. • Facilitating Club of Interest interaction with highly educated PhD, engineers and scientists specialised in

membrane science and engineering. • Facilitating members of Club in obtaining technical support/expertise from the NoE consortium. • Developing mutual plans for durable financing of the Network activities.

Description of work The Network will involve both the European membrane industry and end-users of membrane processes in the activities of the Network and especially in setting up the SBRA. This will be achieved through an active participation of the Club of Interest members in various workpackages: membrane development and characterisation (WP7-10), applications (WP11.1-4), training (WP12) and dissemination (WP14, WP15).

Task 04.1: Publication of CoI Newsletter Starting date: M01 End date: M42 The publication of the newsletter will continue on the pages of the European Membrane News thus disseminating NoE information/results to the CoI and to the European Membrane Society at large. The Network will inform the members of the Club of Interest about activities and recent developments in the field and giving specific access to advanced information. Partners involved: CNRS, Imperial, IBET, GKSS, FORTH/ICE-HT, Vito, SINTEF, UNIZAR, LUT, ITM-CNR, ICTP, DTU, UTwente.

Task 04.2: Develop new activities within the network based on CoI recommendations Starting date: M18 End date: M42 Recommendations from the CoI members and other industrialists will be collected through the road-mapping exercises (WP06.1). The recommendations will be summarized and on their basis a plan for further improvement/development of the Network will be prepared. Partners involved: CNRS, Imperial, IBET, GKSS, FORTH/ICE-HT, Vito, SINTEF, UNIZAR, LUT, ITM-CNR, ICTP, DTU, UTwente.

Task 04.3: Put in action the two-way training/experience exchange scheme between NoE and CoI Starting date: M18 End date: M42 The information collected from the CoI members on the number of researchers they are willing to accommodate and on the types of research projects available will be distributed to the NoE members in order to find researchers suitable for the projects and realise the exchange. CoI members will be also invited to visit NoE partners. The funding of the scheme will depend strongly on i) the design and development of the SBRA and the financial support provided to the NMP from the CoI partners, ii) the participation of NoE in programmes and calls funding mobility. Partners involved: CNRS, Imperial, IBET, GKSS, FORTH/ICE-HT, Vito, SINTEF, UNIZAR, LUT, ITM-CNR, ICTP, DTU, UTwente.

Task 04.4: Scheme for participation of industrialists to the Network’s financial sustainability and durability Starting date: M30 End date: M42

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The Network and the Club of Interest will work to reach an agreement on a financing scheme that will establish a participation of industrialists to the Network’s financial sustainability and durability. An annual CoI workshop will be organized in order to evaluate the different CoI members’ involvement and perspectives for a financial participation of CoI to the NoE. Partners involved: CNRS, Imperial, IBET, GKSS, FORTH/ICE-HT, Vito, SINTEF, UNIZAR, LUT, ITM-CNR, ICTP, DTU, Utwente Task 04.5: Distribution of information about NoE to new industrialists Starting date: M13 End date: M42 Information about NoE will be distributed to industrialists who are not CoI members (from the country profiles lists), and they will be invited to join in. In the light of the planned legal entity, the new and existing members will also be invited to become members of the legal entity. Partners involved: CNRS, Imperial, IBET, GKSS, FORTH/ICE-HT, Vito, SINTEF, UNIZAR, LUT, ITM-CNR, ICTP, DTU, UTwente.

Deliverables D04.1 Club of Interest Newsletter (the publication of CoI newsletter will continue as agreed on the pages of European Membrane News) (M30, M36, M42) D04.3 Prepare recommendations for new activities within the network based on the road-mapping exercises and other CoI suggestions (M35) D04.4 Prepare at least one project proposal involving CoI partners (M36)

Milestones and expected result M04.1 Unified workshop with the NoE and the CoI Members (M25, M36) M04.2 Proof-of-principle on how activities have become better focussed via the Strategic Business Research Agenda (M33)

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WP05 – CREATE A LEGAL ENTITY

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Objectives

• Create a legal entity based on Community law to facilitate European research cooperation within the NanoMemPro consortium (AISBL).

• Present a stable and reliable organisation for a lasting integration of NanoMemPro activities. • Have the legal entity pre-operational at month 32 and fully operational at month 48.

Description of work Task 05.3: Drafting the legal entity statutes Starting date: M24 End date: M32 The first draft of the legal entity statutes will be improved. Partners involved: CNRS, Imperial, IBET, GKSS, FORTH/ICE-HT, Vito, SINTEF, UTwente, UNIZAR, LUT, ITM-CNR, ICTP, DTU Task 05.4: Setting-up of the legal entity Starting date: M32 End date: M40 Partners involved: CNRS, Imperial, IBET, GKSS, FORTH/ICE-HT, Vito, SINTEF, UTwente, UNIZAR, LUT, ITM-CNR, ICTP, DTU

Deliverables D05.2 AISBL: statutes reviewed (M28) D05.3 Setting up an AISBL for the aimed virtual Integrated Membrane Laboratory (M36)

Milestones and expected result M05.3 Workshop with the Governing Board (M25, M37) M05.4 Workshop with the Network and the Industrialists (M33)

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WP06.1 – INCREASE FINANCIAL AUTONOMY AND DURABILITY Work-package number WP06.1 Start date or starting event: M25

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Objectives Design and implement a Business Plan (BP) and a Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) dedicated to the improvement of the network financial autonomy in order to ensure its durability: • Find the financial means to develop excellence research activities which answer challenges and needs • Constantly increase the network financial autonomy • Promote new research projects between network members and other relevant actors • Promote synergies and cooperation with initiatives of the Club of Interest and other R&D organisations. The BP and SRA will be inserted in the Network strategy designed by the Governing Board, the legal entity perspectives and implemented coherently with the initiatives of the Club of Interest. They will benefit from inputs from the Scientific Council and the Club of Expertise.

The purpose of this workpackage is to find the financial means permitting to increase constantly NanoMemPro’s financial autonomy and to ensure the Network’s durability. This will notably be achieved through the design of financial engineering schemes and the guidance of partnerships and workprogrammes between network members and other relevant actors. The main tasks of this workpackage are: • Estimate network financial needs for the next years • Monitor all public/private financing possibilities, from international to regional levels • Implement NanoMemPro strategy vis-à-vis the identified financing oppportunities • Design and start implementing a financial roadmap for the Network. The orientation of this workpackage will be subject to an annual assessment of achievements.

Description of work

Task 06.1.2: Monitor constantly all public/private financing possibilities, from international to regional levels Starting date: M19 End date: M42 To ensure the Network’s long term financial sustainability, each partner will look for financial sources potentially relevant to the Network. Partners involved: All

Task 06.1.3: Design the Strategic Business Research Agenda (SBRA) Starting date: M19 End date: M33 Integrate strategic orientations of the Network together with the business content of a roadmap for Membrane Engineering. Partners involved: All

Task 06.1.4: Implement the Strategic Business Research Agenda (SBRA): working with the CoI – Funding new actions

Starting date: M34 End date: M42 Partners involved: All

Deliverables D06.1.2 Presentation of technological roadmaps: 2nd report of SBRA operation (M30) D06.1.3. Translating technological roadmaps into SBRA as a guideline for AISBL: Oral presentation to EC (M34)

Milestones and expected result M06.1.1 Successful production of Strategic Business/Strategic Research Agenda (M33) M06.1.2 Successful production of at least 3 partnerships (M40)

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WP06.2 – DEVELOP HIGH ADDED VALUE TECHNOLOGICAL SERVICES

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Objectives

• Structure research facilities, equipment, and software tools in a European Membrane Technology Platform (EMTP) for common use by NanoMemPro partners and CoI members, able to provide access to high added value technological services.

• Define the necessary procedures to adequate existing facilities from group scale to Network scale; set up common rules for accessing equipment and databases; define mechanisms for technicians and researchers training with specific equipment available for shared used.

• Develop new software tools for modelling and simulation supported on extensive databases gathering experimental information acquired for different membrane materials and processes.

Description of work Task 06.2.3: Develop new software tools for modelling and simulation, for common use Starting date: M25 End date: M42 Create a relational database gathering information about membrane materials (fabrication variables/conditions and corresponding properties/characterisation) and their performance (operating conditions, performance descriptors). This database will be used for development and validation of software tools for modelling and simulation. This task is developed in close link with WP07, WP08, WP09, WP10 and WP11, in order to tackle problems and situations identified in these WPs. The outcoming knowledge will be used for materials design and process automation. Partners involved: CNRS, Imperial, IBET, FORTH/ICE-HT, Vito, SINTEF, UNIZAR, ITM-CNR, ICTP,DTU Task 06.2.4: Extend electronic communication Starting date: M09 End date: M36 Extend electronic communication to allow immediate access to remote experiment results and extend networking capabilities to operate new remote computer facilities such as webcams and robots that can remotely monitor/control a distant experiment. Partners involved: CNRS, Imperial, IBET, FORTH/ICE-HT, Vito, SINTEF, UNIZAR, ITM-CNR, ICTP, DTU Task 06.2.5: Develop an efficient infrastructure for the transfer of membrane samples Starting date: M12 End date: M30 Develop analysis procedures that are needed as part of a large technology platform. Provide an efficient infrastructure for exchange of sample data before characterisation/processing, and for the transfer of samples between laboratories. Partners involved: CNRS, Imperial, IBET, FORTH/ICE-HT, Vito, SINTEF, UNIZAR, ITM-CNR, ICTP,DTU

Deliverables D06.2.4 Develop an efficient infrastructure for the transfer of membrane samples (M30) D06.2.5 Create a relational database gathering information about membrane materials and their performance (M36)

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D06.2.6 Develop and validate new software tools for modelling and simulation of selected case studies (M42)

Milestones and expected result M06.2.5 Implementation of infrastructure for the transfer of membrane samples (M30) M06.2.6 Implementation of a relational database gathering information about membrane materials and their performances (M36) M06.2.7 New software tools for modelling and simulation of selected case studies made available (M42)

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WP07 – CHARACTERISATION OF MEMBRANE FUNCTION Work-package number WP07 Start date or starting event: M25

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Objectives • Harmonisation of characterisation practices: establish common sets of methods, intensify expertise,

reduce/omit activities on non-competences. • Creation of two new non-destructive membrane characterisation setups. • An indirect objective related to harmonisation is to have the membrane community speak the same language

regarding characterisation.

Description of work

Task 07.4: Proof of principles for two new characterisation methods Starting date: M14 End date: M27 New characterisation methods will be tested by the partners. The three methods for which the proof of concept has to be carried out were already selected in the second year. The scientific basis for at least two of those methods will be checked before the approval by the Governing Board to build the set-ups. Two new methods should be ready for building after the proof of the supporting principles. Partners involved: CNRS, UNIZAR, SINTEF

Task 07.5: Building two new characterisation apparatus Starting date: M25 End date: M33 After the successful end of Task 07.4, the proposed methods will be built, in order to provide the network with new characterisation tools. The new equipments will be tested with samples provided by the partners, and made available for the use of the network and the scientific community. Partners involved: Those selected in Task 07.4. Task 07.8: Cross testing and harmonisation Starting date: M25 End date: M42 Selected samples will be characterised in several laboratories having the same kind of equipment, and the results will be compared. In order to improve the harmonisation, the existing document on available characterisation tools will be improved, adding details on the characteristics of the samples, pretreatments, sealing, results obtained with each facility, and any other useful description. Continuous work will be done with the aim of improving the reproducibility of results. In those cases where the discrepancies are larger than the target values, the equipments and methods will be improved. Partners involved: CNRS, Imperial, IBET, GKSS, FORTH/ICE-HT, Vito, SINTEF, UTwente, UNIZAR, ITM-CNR, ICTP, DTU, LUT Task 07.9: Transfer of SBRA recommendations at WP level Starting date: M25 End date: M42 In relation with WP06.1, the Strategic Business Research Agenda recommendations will be included in the strategy and actions of the WP. Partners involved: CNRS, Imperial, IBET, GKSS, FORTH/ICE-HT, Vito, SINTEF, UTwente, UNIZAR, ITM-CNR, ICTP, DTU, LUT

Deliverables D07.5 Second report on cross-testing and harmonisation (M36) D07.6 Report on building up and testing of the two new non-destructive characterisation methods (M39)

Milestones and expected result M07.2 Proof-of-principle of two new non-destructive characterisation methods (M27) M07.3 Proof-of-principle on how activities have become better focussed via the Strategic Business Research Agenda (M33) M07.4 Build-up of two new apparatus (M36)

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WP08 – MODELLING AND SIMULATION OF MEMBRANE PERFORMANCE

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Objectives

• Integrate transport models and simulators for porous membranes with emphasis on nanosized functional segments and calculations across scales; elucidate the structure-to-transport interrelation needs and concepts.

• Organize modelling at the scale of actual separation systems. • Identify the limits of membrane modelling capabilities towards material and process design.

Description of work Tasks 08.2-08.3: Integration of atomistic transport simulations Starting date: M04 End date: M42 Characterisation of the atomistic models created for the 40 membrane polymers at least with regard to free volume distribution and the mobility of chain segments will be performed. Suggestions for a predictive QSAR scheme utilising the data (to be performed mostly at Air Liquide) will be attempted. Extensive use of ab-initio calculations will be attempted for obtaining the energy related to the absorption of gas molecules in inorganic materials. These quanto-mechanics interactions define completely the Maxwell-Stefan parameters for gas diffusion in inorganic systems. Partners involved: GKSS, ITM-CNR, IBET, Imperial Tasks 08.4-08.5: Permeation models and simulators for microporous and mesoporous inorganic materials

Starting date: M05 End date: M42 Transport simulations (MD, kinetic MC, hybrid diffusion and sorption) of specific reconstructed inorganic membranes will be expanded to other systems. The use of ab-initio calculations to obtain the diffusional activation energy that defines the Maxwell-Stefan diffusivity parameter in nano-silica pores will be optimised. The new version of phenomenological model based on the Maxwell-Stefan-Krishna approach will be optimised. The model can be part of an optimization procedure to enable parameter estimation from experimental data. The effect of support layer will be investigated and the algorithm will be developed further. The Dusty-Gas Model (DGM) of support layer accounting for viscous flow, molecular diffusion, Knudsen flow will be used in the treatment of experimental data from dynamic Wickle-Kallenbach cell experiments. This model will be combined with microscopic models to perform complete calculation of supported microporous membranes. Partners involved: ICTP, CNRS, FORTH/ICE-HT, UNIZAR, Imperial (MO), GKSS, ITM-CNR, IBET, DTU Task 08.6: Macroscopic transport simulations for solution-diffusion membranes

Starting date: M13 End date: M42 Programmes for NF membrane parameter estimation and for prediction of NF rejection coefficients of multi-ion mixtures will be investigated further. Partners involved: UTwente, Imperial, ICTP, IBET, FORTH/ICE-HT, DTU, CNRS, UNIZAR Task 08.7: Modelling of the dense ceramic and hybrid (polymeric-inorganic) membranes

Starting date: M13 End date: M42 Addressing of the features encountered in dense ceramic and hybrid (polymeric-inorganic) membranes from the modelling viewpoint (polymeric-inorganic phase cooperation, interfaces) will be continued. Partners involved: SINTEF, CNRS, DTU, Imperial

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Task 08.8: Modelling of membrane-based separation processes Starting date: M13 End date: M42 Work will be continued on the modelling of membrane reactors, catalytic membranes and membrane contactors. Development of gas separation module for flowsheeting programme (ASPEN Plus and Hysys) will be continued. The possibility of application of this module to the development of new processes based on the membrane separation will be investigated. Partners involved: CNRS, Utwente, ICTP, IBET, GKSS, UNIZAR, ITM-CNR, Imperial, LUT, DTU Task 08.9: Process scale simulation and membrane performance Starting date: M18 End date: M42 Process scale simulation and modelling of membrane performance (filtration units, membrane reactors). Integration of gas separation module for ASPEN Plus software will be continued. Partners involved: All Task 08.10: Transfer of SBRA recommendations at WP level Starting date: M25 End date: M42 In relation with WP06.1, the Strategic Business Research Agenda recommendations will be included in the strategy and actions of the WP. Partners involved: All

Deliverables D08.3 Modelling capabilities to predict membrane performance and role during process operation (M36)

Milestones and expected result M08.2 Integration of material-level modelling for use in process-scale applications (M30) M08.3 Basic characterisation finished for about 30 models, including parameters defined for biatomic gas in application of interest (M30) M08.4 Proof-of-principle on how activities have become better focussed via the Strategic Business Research Agenda (M33)

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WP09 – SYNTHESIS OPTIMISATION OF MEMBRANE MATERIAL

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Objectives

• Evaluation of the possibilities offered by new synthesis methods involving supramolecular systems based on molecular recognition and self assembling systems, modified membrane surface by physical or chemical methods, sol-gel derived templated membranes.

• Identification of at least three breakthrough membrane materials and/or formation technologies. • Formation of European research teams and sharing of specialised equipment for membrane formation and

characterisation.

Description of work Task 09.1: Update of report on fabrication methods identified as breakthrough technologies

Starting date: M01 End date: M42 First update will be delivered on M27. A workshop on new membrane materials will take place in June 2007 at GKSS. Deliverable D09.2 is a starting point to identify new breakthrough materials. It will be continuously updated during the duration of the NanoMemPro project. Partners involved: All Task 09.2: Implemention of R&D programmes based on new materials and membrane formation technologies

Starting date: M06 End date: M42 Partners involved: GKSS, CNRS and UTwente as main organisating partners. Task 09.3: Integration of industrial partners in the Network’s research teams within the framework of the SBRA

Starting date: M19 End date: M30 Partners involved: All Task 09.4: Transfer of SBRA recommendations at WP level Starting date: M25 End date: M42 In relation with WP06.1, the Strategic Business Research Agenda recommendations will be included in the strategy and actions of the WP. Partners involved: All

Deliverables D09.2 Updated report on breakthrough technologies (M27, M36) D09.3 Set-up of a European Research team for a project on new membrane materials (M25, M36)

Milestones and expected result M09.2 Proposal of a European consortium for a new R&D project on a breakthrough technology for new membrane formation (M30) M09.3 Proof-of-principle on how activities have become better focussed via the Strategic Business Research Agenda (M33)

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WP10 –BACK-DESIGN AND MASS PRODUCTION OF MEMBRANE MATERIAL

Work-package number WP10 Start date or starting event: M18

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Objectives

• Identify and provide indications of the optimal characteristics of the membranes and processes in order to overcome the limits of the existing membranes and related processes for separations, reactions and contactors in specific applications of significant industrial interest. Propose well-controlled processes for the mass production of new membrane materials.

• Translate the nano-material science concepts for new and optimized membranes into large-scale production processes with the particular focus on self-assembly and templating processes as well sustainable solvent-free processes.

Tentative cases may be: Membrane distillation: Definition of the membrane parameters and operational criteria for reaching the optimal production rate/quality ratio. Implementation of procedures for decreasing energetic losses and diffusive mass transfer. Membrane crystallizers: Performance/costs analysis, implementation of scale-up procedures. Study of the correlation between membrane morphology and growth mechanisms for crystals produced. Membrane emulsifiers: Production of high-quality monodispersed droplets with limited coalescence phenomena. Confirmation of the correlation between membrane morphology and emulsion characteristics in the widest possible range of pore diameters. Mass transfer catalysis: Development of membrane bioreactors based on different nanoporous polymeric membranes, morphological properties and modules. Control of fouling and polarization phenomena by setting appropriate fluid-dynamic conditions. Improvement of the system efficiency by carrying out the reactions in emulsion. Fuel cells: Definition of the optimal membrane parameters and operational criteria for reaching the optimal production of energy. As far as tasks of the first 24 month period have not been completed yet, all corresponding objectives remain unaltered with respect to the first 2 years. Furthermore, the objectives for the next 18 months of the Network will be: • Identify the major developments in some of the emerging countries world-wide and prepare a survey of

current activities in particular in China, Russia, and Korea • Carry out successful demonstration projects on back-design and mass production of membrane material • Prepare a common research proposal.

Description of work To link WP09 on nano-structured membranes with their application in WP11, we need to develop strategies and competences in scaling up production processes. Task 10.1: Involve technology suppliers for nanostructuring materials Starting date: M01 End date: M30 Partners involved: All Task 10.4: Define a roadmap to upscaling principles (goals, deliverables, methodologies, risks, pitfalls, …).

Starting date: M12 End date: M42 Partners involved: All Task 10.5: Execution of the demonstration project(s) identified in the first 24 months period

Starting date: M19 End date: M42 In the first 24 month period some possible demonstration projects were identified. In the present period, at least two of the most promising projects will be carried out, involving the WP members and some interested industries.

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Partners involved: All Task 10.6: Organize a workshop on the execution of the demonstration project(s) identified in the first 24 month period Starting date: M19 End date: M42 A workshop on the progress of the demonstration projects will be organized, immediately following the conference “Euromembrane 2006”. Furthermore, the workshop will address the future actions to be undertaken, such as the preparation of a common research proposal. Partners involved: All (Organized by ITM-CNR) Task 10.7: Preparation of a survey of the membrane activities in China, Korea and Russia

Starting date: M13 End date: M30 Based on the decisions of the 1st workshop (Rende, 4th April 2005) (Task 10.2) a report on membrane activities in China, Korea, and Russia is under preparation. These countries are undergoing a strong development. Their activities in the field form therefore an important guideline for the future developments and will be monitored in this report. Partners involved: ITM-CNR + All Task 10.8: Preparation of at least one proposal for a common research project Starting date: M19 End date: M42The activities in the present workpackage will lead to the identification of a subject of common interest, which will form the basis for a common research proposal on Back-design and Mass production of membrane materials. Partners involved: All Task 10.9: Transfer of SBRA recommendations at WP level Starting date: M25 End date: M42 In relation with WP06.1, the Strategic Business Research Agenda recommendations will be included in the strategy and actions of the WP. Partners involved: All Deliverables D10.4 Report on the membrane activities in China, Korea and Russia (M30) D10.5 Report on the first demonstration (M30)

Milestones and expected result M10.3 Roadmap to “Realizing nanotechnology for membrane applications” (M36) M10.4 Proof-of-principle on how activities have become better focussed via the Strategic Business Research Agenda (M33)

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WP11.1 – NEW PRODUCTION PROCESSES: SYSTEM APPROACH Work-package number WP11.1 Start date or starting event: M25

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Objectives Evaluate the applicability of the proposed set of metrics for measuring sustainability and hazard of membrane systems.

• Develop two project proposals involving at least three contributing partners.

• Obtain a working understanding of the relationship between membrane architecture and overall system performance, measured using sustainability and economic metrics.

• Fabricate membranes to fill the gap between “desired” and “possible” properties, and demonstrate these in at least one new production process.

• Get better-focussed activites via a Strategic Business/Research Agenda.

Description of work Task 11.1.3: Effect of the membrane architecture on the overall system performance

Starting date: M12 End date: M42 The work on developing functional understanding of how membrane architecture affects overall system performance will rely on the relational databases prepared under WP06.2. The influence of the “desired” membrane molecular properties on the production process sustainability and economics will be evaluated. Partners involved: CNRS, Imperial, IBET, GKSS, FORTH/ICE-HT, Vito, SINTEF, UNIZAR, LUT, ITM-CNR, ICTP, DTU

Task 11.1.4: Fabrication of new membranes with properties “designed” for the production processes selected during the first two year period Starting date: M06 End date: M42 Fabrication of new membranes used in testing models of the new production processes will continue during the next period. Target membranes will be highly selective and solvent stable membranes, acid and base resistant membranes, multifunctional membrane materials to enable lower inventories of toxic materials, and nanostructured membranes using molecular imprinting, bio-grafting, and uni/biaxial drawing. Further step will be oriented toward scaling up attempts for membrane production (membrane modules) and process development. Partners involved: CNRS, Imperial, IBET, GKSS, FORTH/ICE-HT, Vito, SINTEF, UNIZAR, LUT, ITM-CNR, ICTP, DTU Task 11.1.5: “Green” metrics evaluation Starting date: M15 End date: M42 The proposed set of sustainability and hazard green metrics has already been applied to the 4 production processes agreed by participants. Initial evaluation of the effect of introducing a membrane separation step to the conventional process on the overall sustainability and hazard of the process has been performed. During the next period the evaluation will be further refined and hopefully results published in joint publications. A summary report will be prepared (D11.1.3).

Partners involved: CNRS, Imperial, IBET, GKSS, FORTH/ICE-HT, Vito, SINTEF, UNIZAR, LUT, ITM-CNR, ICTP, DTU Task 11.1.6: Transfer of SBRA recommendations at WP level Starting date: M25 End date: M42 In relation with WP06.1, the Strategic Business Research Agenda recommendations will be included in the strategy and actions of the WP. Partners involved: CNRS, Imperial, IBET, GKSS, FORTH/ICE-HT, Vito, SINTEF, UNIZAR, LUT, ITM-CNR, ICTP, DTU

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Deliverables D11.1.2 Agreement on a set of desired membrane molecular properties (M25) D11.1.3 Summary report on the green metrics (M35) D11.1.4 With help from GKSS, start exploiting the transferred casting machine and production of new solvent resistant membrane modules (M36)

Milestones and expected result M11.1.2 Workshop to decide on desired membrane molecular properties and their interactions with production processes sustainability and economics (M25) M11.1.3 Proof-of-principle on how activities have become better focussed via the Strategic Business Research Agenda (M33) M11.1.4 New direction for research in the WP based on the roadmapping exercise and SBRA (M36)

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WP11.2 – FOOD QUALITY: SAFER PRODUCTION METHODS

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Objectives The general objectives of the WP will continue to be the ones initially indicated. Specific objectives for the month 25-42 period are pointed out.

• Development of new smooth and well-focused technologies working at the molecular level, starting from the new concepts of biocatalytic reactors, biosensors, affinity membranes, membrane contactors. Specific objective for M25-M42: identification of the most significant parameters affecting the development of the indicated processes and selection of case studies to use as model tests.

• Dtudy of new active and intelligent polymer membrane films to improve packaging. Specific objective for M25-42: evaluation of existing methods and development of innovative methods to improve packaging able to control and preserve safe conditions.

• Investigation of two different ways to controlling food texture: the use of new kinds of membranes and the transfer of knowledge. Specific objective for M25-42: improvement of food texture by new formulation techniques.

• Development of membrane technologies devoted to obtain liquid foods clarified and of higher quality, which could make a strong impact on new market area where suspended solids, including cloud and pectin, currently have a negative effect on the final product quality. Specific objective for M25-42: integrated processes (including biochemical and physical methods) applied to beverages.

• Get better focussed activities via the Strategic Business/Research Agenda.

Description of work Task 11.2.1: Investigate new means to overcome the existing problems. Works will be based on the new concepts of biocatalytic reactors (such as enzymatic reactor), biosensors to get online control of modifications and affinity membranes for very precise separations (particularly with enantiomers mixtures), and membrane contactors.

Starting date: M01 End date: 42 During the M25-M42 period this task will be continued focusing on the identification of main properties and conditions affecting the processes developments and cases studies for the different operations will be identified as model systems. Partners involved: All partners involved in the WP Task 11.2.2: Conduct, even artificial polymers will be looked at, new specific researches on new films built from natural biopolymers which present the main advantage to be biocompatible and reduce considerably pollution problems due to waste disposal.

Starting date: M01 End date: M42 During the M25-M42 period this task will be continued focusing on needs for innovative methods for the preparation of novel membrane properties and/or their functionalization to produce advanced packaging. Partners involved: All partners involved in the WP Task 11.2.3: Control the texture of food starting from the food molecular ingredients. Nanoscale precision membranes making it possible will be studied for encapsulation, emulsification. Investigate the possibility of

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transferring the know-how on nanostructured membranes preparation to food products (as an example with template techniques).

Starting date: M01 End date: M42 During the M25-M42 period, this task will be continued by developing new methodologies for encapsulation and emulsification of food ingredients by membrane processes. The formulation of new foods will be identified. Partners involved: All partners involved in the WP Task 11.2.4: Optimisation of integrated membrane operations for the concentration of molecular species having benefits on human health (such as antioxidants and vitamins) and the production of new food such as biotechnology-derived ones, sugar substitutes and fake fats.

Starting date: M01 End date: M42 During the M25-M42 period this task will be continued by integrating membrane processes for the concentration of beverages (e.g. juices, milk, and wine) and the production of foods processed by biochemical and physical methods. Various membrane processes (including MF, UF, NF, RO, MC, PV, submerged MBR) will be integrated among them and/or in traditional process lines to maximize production, prevent or minimize wastes, valorise co-products, purify and recycle water within the same production cycle. The integration of bioprocesses with membrane operation will be evaluated for selected systems of industrial interest. Partners involved: All partners involved in the WP Task 11.2.5: Organize a workshop on “Safe and sustainable production methods in food industry”.

Starting date: M25 End date: M42 The meeting will take place after M36. During the M25-M42 period the organization of the workshop will be carried out and the performing date identified. The aim of the workshop will be to expand the exchange between industry, academia, and governatory body. The workshop will have to attract the interest of experts from various scientific areas, e.g. membrane technology, biotechnology, plant design, energy, etc. Partners involved: All the partners of WP11.2, partners from other WPs interested in it, and members of the CoI. Task 11.2.6: Transfer of SBRA recommendations at WP level Starting date: M25 End date: M42 In relation with WP06.1, the Strategic Business Research Agenda recommendations will be included in the strategy and actions of the WP. Partners involved: All partners involved in the WP

Deliverables D11.2.4 Organization of a workshop on “Safe and sustainable production methods in food industry” (M42) D11.2.5 Clustering of interactions between bioactive macromolecules and membranes, and identification of resulting properties of the nanostructured biohybrid membrane systems (M48)

Milestones and expected result M11.2.3 Proof-of-principle on how activities have become better focussed via the Strategic Business Research Agenda (M33) M11.2.4 Starting an international working group with partners from China, Korea, Japan, etc., on food quality related problems (M30) M11.2.5. Meeting for structuring a research proposal (M30)

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WP11.3 – SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS

Work-package number WP11.3 Start date or starting event: M25

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• Establish a road map for sustainable energy systems as part of the Network Strategic Business Research Agenda.

• Integrate partners resources and capabilities by generating R&D projects.

Description of work Task 11.3.6: Organize a workshop following up the R&D projects Starting date: M18 End date: M30 Organise a workshop to follow up the two new R&D projects selected and to promote collaboration between Partners. Partners involved: CNRS, Imperial, IBET, GKSS, FORTH/ICE-HT, Vito, SINTEF, UNIZAR, LUT, ITM-CNR, ICTP, DTU, Members of the Club of Interest Task 11.3.7: Integrate the Partners capabilities Starting date: M18 End date: M42 Based on the deliverable D11.3.3, the Partners will further work to integrate their research facilities and identify needs for performing projects defined in task 11.3.6. On the longer term, new integrated research projects will be planned and infrastructures to meet challenges foreseen, e.g., facilities for up-scaled testing. Partners involved: CNRS, Imperial, IBET, GKSS, FORTH/ICE-HT, Vito, SINTEF, UNIZAR, LUT, ITM-CNR, ICTP, DTU, Members of the Club of Interest. Task 11.3.8: Transfer of SBRA recommendations at WP level Starting date: M25 End date: M42 In relation with WP06.1, the Strategic Business Research Agenda recommendations will be included in the strategy and actions of the WP. Partners involved: CNRS, Imperial, IBET, GKSS, FORTH/ICE-HT, Vito, SINTEF, UNIZAR, LUT, ITM-CNR, ICTP, DTU, Members of the Club of Interest.

Deliverables D11.3.4 Draft “Road Map” report for membranes in sustainable energy systems. Related to task 11.3.5 (M30). D11.3.5 Workshop conducted. Related to task 11.3.6. (M25) D11.3.6 Workshop to discuss and update EU proposals to be sent (M38) D11.3.7 At least one proposal submitted (M42)

Milestones and expected result M11.3.2 Proof-of-principle on how activities have become better focussed via the Strategic Business Research Agenda (M33) M11.3.3 Collaborative project’s content identified and topic, coordinator, name of partners defined (M30) M11.3.4 Gathering of basic information related to the EU proposals about partners capabilities (M35)

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WP11.4 – LIFE SUPPORT AND HEALTH Work-package number WP11.4 Start date or starting event: M25

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Objectives The goal of this task is to integrate R&D activities and competences at the European level through commonly executed research projects. This task can be subdivided into 2 major clusters: (a) bio-artificial organs and (b) sustainable and safe water production. The work items to be addressed are: • Define an Expression of Interest for common project proposals. • Develop common project proposals for joint research with at least 4 contributing partners. • Enhance and support the exchange of people within the research field and common projects. • Get better focussed activities via the Strategic Business/Research Agenda.

Description of work Task 11.4.1: Bio-artificial organs Starting date: M01 End date: M42 Issues for integration: Material-cell interactions (increased bio-compatibility for blood and/or cell contact, controlled protein adsorption behaviour). Membrane fabrication, i.e. new membranes/materials, membrane modification (coating, physisorption, UV and plasma grafting, blending). Advanced membrane structures (development of production methods for controlled surface roughness in nm-scale controlled 2D and 3D architecture, track-etching, dense hybrid membranes, phase separation micromoulding, full and hollow fibers from novel polymers, adsorption module preparation with controlled hydrodynamics (alternative for the packed-bed configuration). Membrane characterisation with respect to bio/hemocompatibility (e.g. protein adsorption). Device fabrication (artificial liver, kidney/liver reactor, intracellular lenses, heart valves, microfluidic devices, 3D scaffolds for tissue engineering). Partners involved: UTwente, ITM-CNR, Vito, Imperial, CNRS, FORTH, SINTEF, LUT, DTU, IBET, GKSS, VITO Task 11.4.2: Sustainable and safe water production Starting date: M01 End date: M42 Issues for integration: Material selection and modification/functionalization (uniaxial/biaxial stretching, impregnation with drugs/chemicals, UV and plasma treatment, anti-fouling membranes). Membrane fouling and scaling (interaction between membranes and NOM, humic substances, hydrodynamics). Module design and fabrication (modelling, spiral wound, plate-and-frame, hollow fibers). Module performance and safety validation (lab and pilot scale testing, effect of chemical contaminants, viruslike particles, cleaning conditions). Performance characterisation of membrane processes (flux and retention, process intensification, hybrid processes, membrane bioreactors, WWTP-effluent, membrane contactors, pre and post treatment). Partners involved: UTwente, ITM-CNR, Vito, Imperial, CNRS, FORTH, SINTEF, LUT, DTU, IBET Task 11.4.3: Transfer of SBRA recommendations at WP level Starting date: M25 End date: M42 In relation with WP06.1, the Strategic Business Research Agenda recommendations will be included in the strategy and actions of the WP. Partners involved: All partners WP

Deliverables D11.4.2 Expression of Interest for common research proposals (M27) D11.4.4 Report Evaluation and Future prospects (M40)

Milestones and expected result M11.4.5 Meeting Expression of Interest (M25)

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M11.4.6 Proof-of-principle on how activities have become better focussed via the Strategic Business/Research Agenda (M33) M11.4.7 First common research proposal (M32) M11.4.8 Second common research proposal (M38)

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WP12 – JOINT TRAINING AND EDUCATION PROGRAMME

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Objectives

• Development of a Doctorate School and Master degree.

• Organisation of training workshops on membrane manufacturing and characterisation at different partner organisations.

• Continuation of exchange of Master and PhD students. Elaboration of a scheme for exchange of Master and PhD students (possibly through the Erasmus/ Tempus programmes, the Marie Curie Programme).

• Continuation of exchange of researchers, definition of wishes and possibilities. Organisation of training workshops at different member organisations.

• Visibility of NanoMemPro and its training options for the national engineering foundations (e.g. Membrane Working Group of Dechema).

Description of work Task 12.5: Development of a European Scientific Master Starting date: M01 End date: M42 The developpment of a specific membrane-centered European Master’s Degree will contribute to the dissemination and promotion of the membrane-related scientific information of the network. The aim of the Master is to allow students to prepare a European co-directed PhD, and to train R&D engineers wishing to work in industry in the NanoMemPro field of focus. Partners involved: All Task 12.6: Development of a European Doctorate School Starting date: M01 End date: M42 The Doctorate School should be developed in three years. A consortium of NanoMemPro Universities and Research Institutes will be formed to coordinate the research and educational activities of the PhD students. External Universities or Research Institutes might also be accepted in the consortium. Concerning the Scientific Master a similar process will be considered. Partners involved: All Task 12.7: Exchange of researchers and key staff Starting date: M01 End date: M42 Partners involved: All Task 12.8: Intensive advertisement of the different training options via the Internet, publications of the European Membrane Society and other means Starting date: M01 End date: M42 Partners involved: All Task 12.9: Organisation of training workshops on membrane manufacturing, membrane characterisation, and molecular modelling Starting date: M18 End date: M42 Training workshops will also be advertised to the industrial members of the Club of Interest. Partners involved: All

Deliverables D12.2 Updated programme and general organization for a Scientific Master degree (M28 + M40) D12.3 Report on status of European Doctorate School (M28 + M40)

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D12.4 Review on the workshops organised by the consortium, evaluation of their impact on the project scope (M36) D12.5 Evaluation of the interest in the exchange of PhD students, quantified review on exchange activity (M36) D12.6 Evaluation of the interest in the exchange of researchers and key staff, quantified review on exchange activity (M36)

Milestones and expected result

M12.2 Overview of personnel exchange organized by the consortium during the first 36 months (M36) M12.3 Overview of the workshops organized by the consortium (M36) M12.4 Set-up of new Master and PhD degrees (M36)

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WP13.1 – KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

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• Organisation of workshops, colloquia and summer schools on the Network’s research and application subjects with the greatest possible international impact.

• Implementation of subgroups in charge of specific given tasks such as training courses, electronic communication, workshops.

• Reinforce exchange and cooperation with countries from Eastern Europe, namely with new EU members (Bulgaria and Rumania).

• Promote international collaborations with developing countries as well as with the US and Japan. Focus our effort to establish scientific and pedagogic cooperation with our partners in the frame of new programmes, like ATLANTIS.

• Establish links with South America, North and South Africa and Russia through existing programmes such as Iberico-American, ERASMUS MUNDUS or instruments dedicated to international cooperation, using the UNESCO chair recently created at IEM/CNRS on “Membranes applied to sustainable development”.

• Participate in educational fairs in Asia and America to draw the attention of students on the scientific areas covered by the Network.

Description of work Task 13.1.1: International symposia and workshops focused on the particular tasks of the project proposal will be organised, partly as a special symposia of already well established scientific events (e.g. Symposium on Membrane and Separation Processes within CHISA 2008 Congress – Prague).

Starting date: M03 End date: M42 Partners involved: All Task 13.1.2: Summer schools and training courses Starting date: M03 End date: M42 Experts from all consortium members involved in the workpackage of interest will be invited to participate in the programme preparation. In each particular case, it will be coordinated by the leader of the respective workpackage. Following summer schools and courses are planned to be held within the next 18 months of the Network: “Symposium on the industrial application of membrane processes”. The impact of summer schools and training courses on the topics related to the individual workpackages of the Network will be evaluated and next similar activities will be planned. Partners involved: All Task 13.1.3: Practical training in the advanced experimental techniques will be organized

Starting date: M03 End date: M42 Practical training in advanced experimental techniques relevant to the problem of nanoporous membrane material synthesis, characterisation and utilisation, and available only in a limited number of laboratories is a prerequisite for their effective use by the other teams, inside as well as outside the consortium. Partners involved: All Task 13.1.4: Participation of a limited number of participants from third countries in the consortium training and knowledge transfer activities. This participation might be partially supported from the Network funds.

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Starting date: M03 End date: M36 This allows strengthening collaboration with third countries and promoting access of non-EU researchers to EU training positions. As regards the US and Japan, it is extremely important to sufficiently advertise the activities planned to reach a satisfactory level of reply. Well-known laboratories which are particularly active in this area will be directly contacted. Involvement of the participants from developed non-EU countries will provide an important feedback enhancing the project’s progress. The contacts with EU new member states will be further developped as well as those with Russian leading universities (Moscow, Tomsk, St. Petersburg). Partners involved: All

Deliverables D13.1.1 Review and evaluation of the workshops and international symposia organised by the consortium (M36) D13.1.2 Evaluation of the interest in the summer schools and courses organised by the consortium and their impact on the project results dissemination and consortium knowledge transfer management (M36) D13.1.3 Evaluation of the contribution of the cooperation with third countries partners (M36)

Milestones and expected result M13.1.3 XXII. Summer school “Smart Membrane Materials” (Prague, September 2006) (M25) M13.1.4 Plan for research and dissemination activities towards third countries’ Universities and research institutions (M30) M13.1.5 Workshop on the cooperation between NanoMemPro and Eastern Europe countries (M32)

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WP13.2 – CROSS-LINKING WITH OTHER PROGRAMMES OR INSTITUTIONS

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• Continue developping the communication and networking with the other co-ordinated programmes (particularly NoE and IP in FP6 and FP7) through different actions: workshops, common working groups, facility sharing, …

• Create a Club of Expertise for the outstanding researchers whose Institutions are not represented in the Network.

• Develop partnerships with other non-European scientific organisations such as NSF (USA), NIMS (Japan), India, China, …

• Identification of other external resources and tools available for research on membranes.

Description of work Task 13.2.2: Settling a Club of Expertise Starting date: M25 End date: M32 This Club will reinforce NanoMemPro capabilities and representativeness at the scientific level without weighing down and blocking management by increasing the number of Institutions at the governing level. Partners involved: CNRS, Imperial, IBET, GKSS, FORTH/ICE-HT, SINTEF, LUT, ITM-CNR, ICTP Task 13.2.3: Develop international collaborations Starting date: M25 End date: M40 Because of the growing interdependence of the world’s countries and economies, and to reach a critical mass on some specific and promising areas, partnerships with non-European institutions will be developed through answers to joint call for proposals, common meetings… Partners involved: CNRS, Imperial, IBET, GKSS, FORTH/ICE-HT, SINTEF, LUT, ITM-CNR, ICTP Task 13.2.4: Develop collaborations with other NoE and EU FP projects Starting date: M25 End date: M42 The communication and networking with other FP6 projects contributing to the development of the European Research Area (principaly with Networks of Excellence as Insidepores and Idecat) will be continued. These collaborations may lead to the organization of common workshops and submission of common proposals. Partners involved: CNRS, Imperial, IBET, GKSS, FORTH/ICE-HT, SINTEF, LUT, ITM-CNR, ICTP

Deliverables D13.2.3 Club of Expertise: settling and working rules (M30)

Milestones and expected result M13.2.3 1st meeting of the Club of Expertise (M30) M13.2.4 Plan for further activities with partners outside the Network, as a support to the enlargement and strengthening of the ERA (M34)

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WP14 – TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER TO INDUSTRY

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• Promotion and stimulation of technology transfer by participation in and organisation of EuropeanTechnology Transfer Fairs for all players concerned with the sustainability of membrane technology.

• Collaboration and information exchange with existing and future European organisations and programmes aimed at facilitating technology transfer to SMEs.

Description of work Task 14.2: Organisation of a brokerage event Starting date: M09 End date: M34 The organisation will be done by network partners in close contact with the IRCs (Innovation Relay Centres) and the EBN (European Business and Innovation Centres Network). A close collaboration is required with national membrane organisations, other network initiatives and planned activities from other WPs, aiming to combine different initiatives and to avoid an excess of membrane-events. This is needed to ensure a high added value for the network and the industrial stakeholders. Targeted participants are not only industrial companies, engineering bureaus, consultants seeking for solutions and research institutes or companies with marketable technologies, but also companies that successfully implemented membrane technology willing to share their experience, and risk-capital providers. The data-base will be evaluated to end up with a technology match between partners. During the brokerage events, contacts between interested partners and contract negotiations will be supported. Partners involved: CNRS, Imperial, IBET, GKSS, FORTH/ICE-HT, Vito, SINTEF, UTwente, UNIZAR, LUT, ITM-CNR, ICTP, DTU Task 14.4: Mapping of technological challenges Starting date: M13 End date: M42 Promotional actions and contacts with research organisations and industry to stimulate the input of technology profiles to the database. Regular discussion meetings will be organised in order to define interesting technological challenges, to make a priority list of them and to point out a long-term strategy plan. To create a backbone structure, special attention will be paid to the exploration and mapping (D14.2) of different strategies and techniques that are currently being used in leading institutes. Partners highly involved in this activity domain are VITO, EMI (UTwente), IBET, SINTEF and GKSS.

Partners involved: CNRS, Imperial, IBET, GKSS, FORTH/ICE-HT, Vito, SINTEF, UTwente, UNIZAR, LUT, ITM-CNR, ICTP, DTU

Deliverables D14.2 Organisation of a European Technology Transfer Fair, co-organised by the consortium (M34) D14.3 Report on Technology transfer strategies applied by leading technology institutes (M30)

Milestones and expected result M14.3 Proof-of-principle on how activities have become better focussed via the Strategic Business Research Agenda (M33) M14.4 Increase of technology offers to 25 (M36)

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WP15.1 – CONSUMERS’ CONCERNS AND REGULATIONS

Work-package number WP15.1 Start date or starting event: M25

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• Identify citizens’ concerns and expectations that can be addressed by membrane processes in terms of food quality and safety, health-supporting technologies, water quality and availability, environment monitoring and protection, sustainability of productive processes, and clean energy production and distribution. This is done by analysing the IPPC (Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control) directive documents.

• Inform citizens and their organisations on the potential impact of membrane processes for sustainable development: database gathering all information contained in the IPPC directive regarding relevant areas where membrane processes are defined as the Best Available Techniques.

• Divulgation of the database between NanoMemPro partners, the Internet (Wikipedia and NanoMemPro public web sites) and the Members of the Club of Interest.

• Monitor the impact of the divulging actions in terms of citizens’ perception.

Description of work Task 15.1.1: Contact governmental bodies, non governmental organisations and consumers’ organisations Starting date: M03 End date: M30 Contact governmental bodies, non governmental organisations and consumers’s organisations in order to collect quantitative information about citizens’ concerns and expectations. The new approach carried out in the last period will be continued (studying the IPPC documents). Partners involved: CNRS, Imperial, IBET, GKSS, FORTH/ICE-HT, SINTEF, UNIZAR, LUT, ICTP. Task 15.1.3: Prepare information packages Starting date: M06 End date: M30 Prepare information packages about the role and contribution of membrane processes to a sustainable development; this information will also be available on the NanoMemPro web site. Partners involved: CNRS, Imperial, IBET, GKSS, FORTH/ICE-HT, SINTEF, UNIZAR, LUT, ICTP Task 15.1.4: Dissemination actions in order to answer the citizens’ concerns and expectations

Starting date: M06 End date: M36 Dissemination actions will be carried out in collaboration with the Club of Interest, Non Governmental Organisations and consumers’ organisations, in order to answer the citizens’ concerns and expectations previously identified. These promoting actions will also include a workshop that will specifically address citizens’ concerns. Partners involved: CNRS, Imperial, IBET, GKSS, FORTH/ICE-HT, SINTEF, UNIZAR, LUT, ICTP Task 15.1.5: Monitor the impact of the dissemination actions Starting date: M15 End date: M36 Monitor the impact of the divulging actions. This task will be carried out in collaboration with the entities mentioned in the first task, applying the instruments commonly used for this purpose (questionnaires and others). Partners involved: CNRS, Imperial, IBET, GKSS, FORTH/ICE-HT, SINTEF, UNIZAR, LUT, ICTP Task 15.1.6: Follow and/or participate in the making of regulations Starting date: M12 End date: M42 Participation in advisory committees and technical panels for the establishment of EC directives and regulations. Establish collaboration with the European Integrated Prevention and Pollution Control Bureau as a specific Technical Working Group (TWG).

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Contacts with the Portuguese IPPC National Representatives for intervention in regulation making of selected industrial sectors. Definition with other NanoMemPro partners of a strategy of intervention in regulation making at the EC level. Partners involved: CNRS, Imperial, IBET, GKSS, FORTH/ICE-HT, SINTEF, UNIZAR, LUT, ICTP

Deliverables D15.1.4 Monitor impact of the dissemination actions (M36)

Milestones and expected result M15.1.3 Divulging action with environment and industry officials and industrialists (M36)

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WP15.2 – STRENGTHENING CITIZENS’ AWARENESS IN SCIENCE

Work-package number WP15.2 Start date or starting event: M25

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• Organise material to be used and submitted to citizens, such as semi-scientific articles, posters, web-pages. Translate and adapt them for use in different countries.

• Organise visits to public schools in order to transfer the Network’s know-how. Adapt presentations to students’ standard and their special needs countrywide.

• Organise visits from public schools to universities and industries under the framework of the Network. Design simple experiments and demonstrations adapted to school children of various ages as well as grown-up citizens like their parents.

Description of work Task 15.2.1: Collect data to transfer to citizens Starting date: M01 End date: M42 Going on collecting data to transfer to citizens, ranging from school children to “average unaware” citizens. Partners involved: LUT, CNRS, UNIZAR, IBET, SINTEF, ICTP Task 15.2.4: Workshop on the efficiency of this type of science transfer Starting date: M18 End date: M25 A workshop on topics easy to understand for citizens (industry and others) is arranged so that knowledge is transferred from NanoMemPro to other groups. The easily percepted water treatment and product purification concept will be the issue. Press and schools will be involved. Partners involved: LUT, CNRS, UNIZAR, IBET, SINTEF, ICTP Task 15.2.5: Translation of material into other languages Starting date: M18 End date: M30 Posters and e.g. lists of course contents obtained in different partner countries will be translated and tried in other countries. Partners involved: LUT, CNRS, UNIZAR, IBET, SINTEF, ICTP Task 15.2.6: Creation of videos Starting date: M21 End date: M36 Information in the form of videos should be created. These videos will be used in schools and other appropriate places for informing the public about membrane technologies. Partners involved: LUT, CNRS, UNIZAR, IBET, SINTEF, ICTP

Deliverables D15.2.4 Workshop results and perception of results and feedback (M26) D15.2.6 First videos created (M36)

Milestones and expected result M15.2.3 First materials in all NanoMemPro countries finished (M30)

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WP16 – STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT

Work-package number WP16 Start date or starting event: M25

Activity Type Management Activities

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Improvement of an original strategic management method inspired from the principles of the European Foundation of Quality Management (EFQM), especially adapted to conduct the Network to a durable integration and reach scientific and technical excellence.

Description of work: Task 16.1: Implementation and improvement of the manual of management rules and processes

Starting date: M01 End date: M42 The work comprises the improvement of the rules and processes contained in the manual of NanoMemPro management (D16.1) that gives the main decision-making rules and the main procedures regarding the good operation of the Network. It also includes:

- a project charter. - a description of the project management strategy. - a scope statement including project objectives and deliverables. - performances measurement baselines. - costs estimates, schedules and responsibility assignments. - main milestones and deliverable relevance. - resources adequacy, notably key required staff. - risk management baselines. - process management plan baselines.

Partners involved: All Task 16.2: Evaluation of the partners’ understanding and implementation of the strategic management

Starting date: M37 End date: M39 In order to evaluate then improve the strategic management of the Network, an investigation will be done through a questionnaire and interview directed to partners participating in this WP. Partners involved: All Task 16.3: Strategic management improuvement Starting date: M13 End date: M42 During the upcoming 18 months, work items will be the following:

- the NanoMemPro strategic level coordination and meetings (in particular those of the Governing Board), plus the reporting to and from this strategic bodies.

- the project reviews and the production of strategic documents (e.g. main changes in the Network). - the interaction of the Network’s coordinator with the EC (meetings, consolidated reporting) and public

relationship (media, industry, institutions, academia). - the monitoring of the progress of the NoE towards its objectives. - the definition of the strategy; decision on changes to the consortium and incorporation of new

members, modification of budget, adaptation of the Joint Programme of Activities. As regard risks, a continuous improvement of the management processes will be implemented to ensure an increasing quality during the whole network lifetime.

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Partners involved: All This work programme will run coherently with progress and achievements of other levels of Management (WP17 and WP18).

Deliverables D16.2 Strategic, decisions and orientations management report (M28, M36)

Milestones and expected result M16.1 Successful assessment of the NoE third-year implementation (M28, M39)

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WP17 – INTEGRATIVE MANAGEMENT

Work-package number WP17 Start date or starting event: M25

Activity Type Management Activities

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Objectives

Implementation of the integrative management according to the ISO 10006 standard adapted to the NoE requirement for a durable integration of activities.

Description of work: Task 17.1: Integrative management improvement Starting date: M01 End date: M42 The work-programme includes the following: • Management of project integration. This process contains the NoE management plan, the management of

interfaces and cooperation, the analysis of advancement and the conclusions of the 4 year period. • Management of the content. It includes the conception and the definition of the content, the definition of

the JPI, JPR and JPS activities and the control of their evolutions. • Management of delay in relation to activities, duration assessment, planning and delay. • Costs management including cost assessment, budget and cost control. • Resources management including planning, assignment and control processes. • Management of communication including communication plan, organisation, control of interface and

cooperation. • Management of purchases including the planning and control of purchases, the implementation of competitive

calls. • Risks management with identification, evaluation and control. • Management of degree of excellence by establishing a quality plan that includes quality indicators for all

activities and WP and their follow-up to ensure an increasing quality of the Network. • Management of legal and administrative aspects, notably of the consortium agreement. • Obtaining audit certificates, and financial security such as bank guarantees.

The work also includes the periodic update of the project documents related to the different processes (progress reports, work-plan, cost statements, communication reports) and the supervision of the preparation of the different deliverables and technical reports from the Activities and WPs. The co-ordinator will manage the interface between the different management modules. The WP includes the organisation of meetings (Executive committee meetings, reviews with the EC, …). The work programme will run coherently with the progress and achievements of the other levels of Management (WP16 and WP18) Partners involved: All partners

Deliverables D17.1 Annual Management report, including resources assessment and financial progress reports (M25, M37)

Milestones and expected result M17.1 Successful assessment of the NoE third-year implementation (M29, M41)

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WP18 – ACTIVITY AND WORKPACKAGE MANAGEMENT

Work-package number WP18 Start date or starting event: M25

Activity Type Management Activities

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Objectives

CNRS will run the project. It will be responsible for ensuring that correct procedures are carried out and deadlines and obligations met. The task comprises the development and implementation of the management procedures according to the ISO 10006 project management standard. CNRS will implement the management system procedures for the organisation of each WP.

Description of work: Task 18.1: Administrative and technical support of the activities and WPs Starting date: M25 End date: M42 Activities and WP leaders will be appointed to prepare, carry out, disseminate and exploit the results and progresses. Each leader will be responsible for his/her Activity or WP progress and deliverable. Each leader will base Activity and WP management on the principles of the ISO 10006 project management standard. The task is constant and recurring through the main following items: • Periodic update of the Activities and WP documents (Work plan, internal procedures). • Supervision of preparation of reports, cost statements, publications. • Preparation and submission of all the necessary information and reporting to the integrative management

team in order to analyse and monitor progress, results and performances by the network. • Realisation of internal Activity and WP meetings, as well as meetings with other WPs or management

bodies. • Identification and resolution of potential conflicts. • Contribute to the effective internal communication of the network, by the means of an internal technical

and management activity report. The work programme will run coherently with progress and achievements of other levels of Management (WP16 and WP17).

Deliverables D18.1 Semi-annual activities and WP progress report (M30, M36, M42)

Milestones and expected result M18.1 Successful assessment of the NoE third-year implementation (M29, M41) M18.2 Successful implementation of the management procedures (M31)

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10. PROJECT RESOURCES AND ESTIMATION OF INCURRED ELIGIBLE COSTS

10.1 Budget

The distribution of the EC funding per Activity and Work Package for the period M25 to M42 is presented in the table below:

Activity / WP No

Activity / Workpackage title Funding

(%) Funding (Euro)

Integrating Activities A01 Towards a European membrane Laboratorium

WP01.1 Integrate knowledge management 6% 172 675 WP01.2 Share and reinforce tools and facilities 5% 143 896

A02 Consolidation of the integrated organisations WP02.1 Adaptation of organisations activities 5% 143 896 WP02.2 Reinforce electronic communication and networking 5% 143 896

A03 WP03 Plan for staff mobility and work positions 7% 201 454A04 WP04 Integrate the Club of Interest in the NoE framework 5% 143 896A05 WP05 Create a legal entity 4% 115 117A06 Set up a European Membrane Technology Platform

WP06.1 Increase financial autonomy and durability 3% 86 338 WP06.2 Develop high added value technological services 5% 143 896

Joint Executed Research Activities A07 WP07 Characterisation of membrane function 3,5% 100 727A08 WP08 Modelling and simulation of membrane performance 3,5% 100 727A09 WP09 Synthesis optimisation of membrane material 3,5% 100 727A10 WP10 Back-design and mass production of membrane material 3,5% 100 727A11 Applications for well-being and sustainability

WP11.1 New production processes: system approach 3% 86 338 WP11.2 Food quality: safer production methods 3% 86 338 WP11.3 Sustainable energy systems 3% 86 338 WP11.4 Life support and health 3% 86 338

Spreading of Excellence Activities A12 WP12 Joint training and education programme 5% 143 896A13 Dissemination of results to scientific community

WP13.1 Knowledge transfer and international cooperation 4% 115 117 WP13.2 Cross-linking with other programmes or institutions 2% 57 558

A14 WP14 Technology transfer to industry 5% 143 896A15 NoE communication plan to the Citizen

WP15.1 Consumers’ concerns and regulations 3% 86 338 WP15.2 Strengthening citizens’ awareness in science 3% 86 338

Management Activities A16 WP16 Strategic management 2% 57 558A17 WP17 Integrative management 2% 57 558A18 WP18 Activity and Workpackage management 3% 86 338

100% 2 877 919

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The following table represents the EC funding per participant per Activity type for the period M25 to M42:

IntegratingActivities

Jointly Executed Research Activities

Spreading of Excellence Activities Management Activities

CNRS 363 704 160 256 135 602 201 454 861 017 5 250 000Imperial 71 910 41 548 35 156 0 148 614 750 000IBET 102 728 59 354 50 223 0 212 306 750 000GKSS 154 093 89 031 75 334 0 318 458 2 100 000FORTH/ICE-HT 92 456 53 419 45 201 0 191 075 862 500Vito 71 910 41 548 35 156 0 148 614 2 062 500SINTEF 102 728 59 354 50 223 0 212 306 1 458 750UTwente 82 183 47 483 40 178 0 169 844 750 000UNIZAR 61 637 35 613 30 134 0 127 383 450 000LUT 41 091 23 742 20 089 0 84 922 375 000ITM-CNR 71 910 41 548 35 156 0 148 614 525 000ICTP 82 183 47 483 40 178 0 169 844 852 000DTU 41 091 23 742 20 089 0 84 922 425 800

TOTAL 1 339 625 724 122 612 718 201 454 2 877 919 16 611 550

EC funding (€) per Activity Type Total EC funding(€)

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10.2 EC contribution for the full duration of the project

Total In which first six monthsReporting Period 1 M1 – M12 1 057 729 Reporting Period 2 M13 – M24 1 390 617 Reporting Period 3 M25 – M36 2 157 919 1 103 361 Reporting Period 4 M37 – M48 1 773 735 720 000

Estimated breakdown of the EC contribution per reporting period

Reporting Periods Month x – Month yRequested Grant to the Budget

The total contribution from the European Commission will not exceed 6 380 000 €. 10.3 Project management level description of resources and grant

Integrating activities

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Figure 12: Distribution of funding amongst activities

In order to obtain a sustainable integration, NanoMemPro has adopted a specific strategy for the period going from M13 to M30 which consists in emphasising the integration efforts and preparing the ground for the Network durability. Therefore the consortium has decided to assign the following distribution (Figure 12): 45% of the budget to Integration Activities, 26% of the budget to Joint Research Activities, 22% of the budget to Spreading of Excellence Activities and 7% of the budget to Management Activities. This share of the potential budget shows the intention of partners to advance through a deep incorporation of their scientific and technological power in order to obtain the Excellence in Europe. The efforts dedicated to sharing tools and knowledge management, the adaptation

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of organisations and e-communication, the plan for mobility, the integration of the Club of Interest, the legal entity creation and finally the European Membrane Platform establishment are also of great significance. This initial funding distribution among the 4 groups of activities could probably evolve over the next period of the project. The spreading of excellence and research activities is expected to be reinforced in order to accelerate dissemination and knowledge transfer as well as technological business stimulation.

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11. ETHICAL ISSUES In membrane science and engineering, ethical and responsibility issues connected with various initiatives will reflect many complexities, those from the multidisciplinary and multi-institutional character of research and development, as well as from more technical aspects. To survey ethical implications and identify risks, it is necessary to step back from captivating visions of profound transformations of the material world and of society. Focus must be placed on specific proposed initiatives in their institutional environments. Normative questions, i.e. questions on what is right and appropriate to do, gain a foothold at the macro level in relation to societal and organizational policies and activities and at the micro level in relation to ethical standards, responsibilities, decisions, and actions of individuals. • A significant aim of ethical investigation is to anticipate ethical problems, preventable harms, conflicts about

justice and fairness, and issues concerning respect for persons likely to arise from specific initiatives in membrane materials. To go further in identifying ethical issues, we need concrete points of departure, actual examples or cases that pose ethical questions, quandaries, or conflicts. This is how we proceed in practical and professional ethics when looking at issues in other social practices. Lacking specific membrane material at this time we may note features of materials that because of their alleged novelty may be sources of ethical concern. For example, forecasts of development of new chemical materials stress the creation of new membrane production processes. The latter are likely to raise ethical questions, for instance, about the need for safeguards for workers that specific new processes might generate. Questions of these kinds can provide points of entry to the institutional, organizational settings in which potential problems are embedded and in which they must be examined.

• A second important aims is to foster sensitivity to ethical issues and responsibilities at every level of decision making by both technical and policy people.

Animal experimentation issues The challenge for the research community is to drastically increase the expectations on science to develop alternatives to animal-based tests. The NanoMemPro Network is committed to better organise research and development and to promote and apply the “Three Rs” (reduction, refinement and replacement) concept in order to find alternatives for animal experimentation. More precisely, the NanoMemPro Network will take initiatives to: • reduce animal experimentation. This may be possible by coordinating animal experimentation at Network level

in order to reduce the number of experiences and improve knowledge communication. • refine animal experimentation by using best practices which alleviate or minimise potential pain, suffering and

distress and which enhance animal well being. • replace animal experimentation, when possible, by methods without experimentation or other scientific

procedures in animals. The Network will establish a Council for Ethics and will contribute to increasing researchers’ awareness of the three Rs concept and will survey during the whole period its promotion by a quality indicator. An annual award will be defined for researcher, accelerating the validation of alternative experimentation methods. The committee will be in contact with the ECVAM (European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods). NanoMemPro conformity with legislations National legislation conformity NanoMemPro members are conforming to current legislation and regulations in the countries where the research will be carried out. Where required by national legislation or rules, participants shall seek the approval of the relevant ethics committees before starting the RTD activities that raise ethical issues.

NanoMemPro conformity with EC legislation The NanoMemPro members are conforming to relevant EU legislation such as: • The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU. • Directive 2001/20/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 April 2001 on the approximation of

the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to the implementation of good clinical practice in the conduct of clinical trials on medicinal products for human use.

• Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data.

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• Council Directive 83/570/EEC of 26 October 1983 amending Directives 65/65/EEC, 75/318/EEC and 75/319/EEC on the approximation laid down by law, regulation or administrative action relating to proprietary medicinal products.

• Directive 98/44/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 1998 on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions.

• Directive 90/219/EEC of 23 April 1990 on the contained use of genetically modified micro-organisms. • Directive 2001/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 March 2001 on the deliberate

release into the environment of genetically modified organisms and repealing Council Directive 90/220/EEC.

International conventions and declarations The NanoMemPro members will respect the following international conventions and declarations: • Helsinki Declaration in its latest version. • Convention of the Council of Europe on Human Rights and Biomedicine signed in Oviedo on 4 April 1997,

and the Additional Protocol on the Prohibition of Cloning Human Beings signed in Paris on 12 January 1998. • UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. • Universal Declaration on the human genome and human rights adopted by UNESCO. Participants should take into account to the opinions of the European Group of Advisers on the Ethical Implications of Biotechnology (1991-1997) and the opinions of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New technologies (as from 1998).

Protection of Animals In accordance with the Amsterdam protocol on animal protection and welfare, animal experiments must be replaced with alternatives wherever possible. Suffering by animals must be avoided or kept to a minimum. This particularly applies (pursuant to Directive 86/609/EEC) to animal experiments involving species which are closest to human beings. Altering the genetic heritage of animals and cloning of animals may be considered only if the aims are ethically justified and the conditions are such that the animals’ welfare is guaranteed and the principles of biodiversity are respected. Through a close collaboration with the Ethics Council, the NanoMemPro will take care of the new orientations of the soon revised EC Directive, and thus participate to the EU dynamic whose Treaty now formally recognises the welfare requirements of animals. This will permit to improve the controls on the use of laboratory animals, set minimum standards for housing and care, as well as for the training of personnel handling animals and supervising the experiments. The WP11.4 partners specialy concerned with this issue because they will work on bio-artificial organs, will collaborate regulary with the Ethics Council in order to follow the protection of animals.

Information required from applicants on the ethical aspects of the proposed research project Does your proposed research raise sensitive ethical questions related to: YES NO

Human beings X Human biological samples X Personal data (whether identified by name or not) X Genetic information X Animals X

The NanoMemPro members confirm that the proposed research does not involve:

• Research activity aimed at human cloning for reproductive purposes. • Research activity intended to modify the genetic heritage of human beings which could make such changes

heritable. • Research activity intended to create human embryos solely for the purpose of research or for the purpose of

stem cell procurement, including by means of somatic cell nuclear transfer. • Research involving the use of human embryos or embryonic stem cells with the exception of banked or isolated

human embryonic stem cells in culture.

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APPENDIX A - CONSORTIUM DESCRIPTION / EXCELLENCE OF

PARTICIPANTS A.1 Participants and Consortium RESEARCHERS TO BE INTEGRATED AND COMMITMENT OF MEMBERS In order to ease the integration and management as well as the clarity and legibility of NanoMemPro, one single public institution has been selected in each country to support the project. Partners were selected according to rigorous criteria: the intrinsic notoriety of the partner, the nature of its activities and its level of integration in the various programmes or scientific societies already in existence. The integration begins at national level where some partners (in France, Portugal, and Czech Republic) have already accepted to be represented by just one institution in order to integrate several competencies coming from different departments. A critical mass of 122 researchers and 57 PhD students has been integrated for funding in this Network. However, the work of over 180 researchers and 100 PhD students representing the whole potential of the core members will be included in the Network by a common decision of NanoMemPro members in order to quickly address the Network’s ambitious objectives.

Each core partner will have the task for trying to integrate new capabilities in the Network as and when the need arises through appropriate means to be defined. The reasons for that are: • The field of membrane research and training is amazingly rich in several European countries. There are indeed

many small groups which do not have the critical size but possess a thorough expertise in valuable fields directly related to NanoMemPro activities.

• These small groups are most of the time already associated to core NanoMemPro members through national programmes (such Prosetia in France which has tightly linked for over 10 years CNRS and INRA in the field of membrane technology, the national programme on Membranes in Spain…).

Finally, Network members obtained a high commitment for sustainable integration with possible modification of the management of their organization structures by a letter of appointment signed by their high authorities. Before the project starts, a consortium agreement will be drawn up and signed by all members. In addition, a deeper commitment of members will be studied up to the end of the four-year period.

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NanoMemPro NoE List of activities - Full duration of project Project acronym – NanoMemPro

CNRS Imperial IBET GKSS FORTH/ICE-HT

Vito SINTEF UTwente UNIZAR LUT ITM-CNR

ICTP DTU ACIES1 TOTAL Partners

Integrating activities

Towards a European Membrane Laboratorium X X X X X X C X X X X X X 13

Consolidation of the integrated organisations C X X X X X X X X X X X X 13

Plan for staff mobility and work positions C X X X X X X X X X X X 12

Integrate the Club of Interest in the NoE framework X C X X X X X X X X X X X 13

Create a legal entity C X X X X X X X X X X X X 13

Set up a European Membrane Technology Platform X X C X X X X X X X X X X 13

Joint research programme

Characterisation of membrane function X X X X X X X X C X X X X 13

Modelling and simulation of membrane performance X X X X C X X X X X X X 12

Synthesis optimisation of membrane material X X X C X X X X X X X X 12

Back-design and mass production of membrane material X X X X X X X X C X X 11

Applications for well-being and sustainability X X X X X X X C X X X X X 13

Spreading of excellence activities

Joint training and education programme X X X C X X X X X X X X 12

Dissemination of results to scientific community X X X X X X X X X X C X 12

Technology transfer to industry X X X X X C X X X X X 11

NoE communication plan to the Citizen X X X X X X X X C X 10

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Strategic management C X X X X X X X X X X X X X 14

Integrative management C X X X X X X X X X X X X X 14

Activity and Workpackage management C X X X X X X X X X X X X X 14

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DESCRIPTION OF THE CONSORTIUM AND OF THE EXCELLENCE OF THE PARTICIPANTS

OVERVIEW of CORE PARTNERS

Organisation name Type1 Country

Number of researchers2

Number of publications, patents…3

Role in the project Qualification of key personnel

CNRS Hosts IEM Montpellier and LGC Toulouse RES France

Res.: 27 PhD S.: 13

Between 1998 and 2002: more than 300 PIJ and more than 12 patents co-signed

Scientific and Technical Coordinator 5500 m2 facilities Research and Education Membrane preparation, characterisation, design, mechanisms, transport in complex media, materials (ceramics, polymers, hybrids), electro membranes, modelling, process design, Process integration

Prof. G. M. Rios, Co-director of IEM, member of ICIM, ICOM, sc. Editorial board of Int. Journals, Int. evaluation committees Dr. Pierre Aimar, Deputy Director – LGC- Co-Editor J. of Membrane Science; 65 papers on Membrane based research

Imperial HE England

Res.: 7 PhD S.: 5

PIJ: 250 - PC: 100 - Pat.: 25 - Aw.: Cremer and Warner Medal (IChemE) 1997; Junior Moulton Medal (1994)

Analytical fabrication, testing, equipment; computer modelling facilities, seminar rooms; teaching facilities Molecular scale separations, improving and recycling products, multifunctional structured materials, fuel cells

Prof. Livingston: - Cremer and Warner Medal (IChemE) 1997 - Junior Moulton Medal (1994) – More than 110 papers and 10 patents, several editorial and scientific conference boards, coordinator EU projects (2) under 4th and 5th Frameworks, graduated 20 PhD students

IBET hosts Univ. Nova Lisboa and IST/UTL RES Portugal

Res.: 10 PhD S.: 6

Pub.: 280 - PIJ: 175 -PC: 105 - Pat.: 4 including 2 Int. patents (PCT) - Aw.: several awards for “best paper” in international conferences; many published papers have been recognised as “VIP” papers

2000 m2 Pilot plant for separation and purification processes; education training Biosensors and Bio-artificial organs, membrane bio-reactors; Preparation and functionalization of polymeric membranes Monitoring at a nano-scale; Fluid Dynamics and modelling of mass transfer at interfaces

Dr. J.G. Crespo: member of the Council of the EMS and of the Scientific Edit. Board of the J. of Membrane Science – Responsible of the Laboratory of Membrane Processes, IBET – Coord. of 7 nat. projects and 2 EU projects and 2 Networks – 4 patents – 90 publications Dr. Maria Norberta de Pinho: Coordinator of the Group of Membranes Processes (IST/UTL) and of several national and EU projects – 100 publications

GKSS RES Germany

Res.: 15 PhD S.: 5

290 publications and 58 patents from 1998 to 2002

Molecular modelling of transport in polymers, the synthesis of new polymeric materials for membranes, membrane preparation in the laboratory and in machines in technical scale, module design and pilot plants for applications such as gas separation in petrochemical industry, membrane reactor, regenerative medicine and fuel cell

Dr. Peinemann: 10 years of experience in management of European projects, President of European Membrane Society, more than 100 papers, 14 patents; he organised numerous workshops

FORTH/ICE-HT RES Greece

Res.: 9 PhD S.: 2

Pub.: 336 - PIJ: 154 - PC: 182 - Pat.: 3 - Aw.: Morris Cohen Research Award, Electrochemical Society, Norman Hackerman Young Author Award; Cahn, Inc.

5800 m2 facilities – Separations, energy related processes (fuel cells), modelling and simulation of structure, inorganic and polymeric membrane development, chemical and structural modification of membrane materials, membrane characterisation, evaluation of membrane performance

Dr V. Burganos: Research Director at FORTH/ICE-HT – 20 years of research experience – 37 publications, coordinator of the MRS symposium ‘Membranes-Preparation, Properties, and Applications’ in Boston, 2002, guest editor MRS Bulletin, March 99

1 HE: Higher education – RES: Research – IND: Industry – OTH: Others 2 Number of researchers to be integrated 3 Publications: Pub. – Papers in International Journals: PIJ – Publication in Congress: PC – Patent: Pat. – Awards: Aw.

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Organisation name Type Country

Number of researchers

Number of publications, patents…

Role in the project Qualification of key personnel

Vito RES Belgium

Res.: 7 PhD S.: 2

Pub.: 190 – PIJ: 80 – PC: 110 – Pat.: 7 – Aw.: Golden Egg Flemish Innovation reward

Organic, inorganic and mixed matrix membrane development, nanoparticle incorporation, advanced characterisation and surface modification techniques, multiscale membrane application studies

Dr. Inge Genné, Project Manager, 15 years experience in membrane research, member of the board of the Dutch membrane society and the Technical working group on ‘Water in Industry’ form the Water Supply and Sanitation Technology Platform.

SINTEF RES Norway

Res.: 10 Pub.: 446 – Pat.: 17 Inorganic membrane development, Precursor and nanoparticle synthesis in membrane development, H2 flux in microporous, nanocapsule, CO2 capture, SOFC

Dr R. Bredesen: Chief scientist – Coordinator of 2 EU projects – 40 publications, 4 patents, 50 reports, member of ICIM, ICCMR

UTwente HE Netherlands

Res.: 8 PhD S.: 7

PIJ : 220( last 10 years) Patents – PCT or EP (last 3 years)

Synthesis and preparation of precise membrane architectures and molecular sharp separation structures by micro and nano fabrication methods as wells as self-assembly of colloidal and molecular entities

Pr M. Wessling, Edi. Board of J; Membrane Science, Separation and Purification Technology, Founder : Mosaic Systems bv

UNIZAR HE Spain

Res.: 6 PhD S.: 5

PIJ: 60 (last 5 years) - PC: 110 (last 5 years) - Pat.: 3 (last 5 years) - Aw.: 3M Innovation Award-2001

Inorganic membranes, Microporous membranes, membrane reactors, reaction and separation engineering, education and training

Prof. J. Santamaria: Co-author of more than 125 papers – 7 patents – 2 textbooks – More than 200 presentations at scientific meetings – Co-Editor of the Chemical Engineering Journal

LUT RES Finland

Res.: 4 PhD S.: 3

Last 5 years: Pub.: 102 – PIJ: 48 – Pat.: 2 – PC.: 40 –Others: 14

Education and training Industrial applications in dairy, metal and pulp and paper industry Characterisation, fouling and cleaning of membranes, Nano filtration, modelling

Prof. Marianne Nyström: Head of laboratory – 210 publications – 2 patents – Director of the LUT Centre for Separation Technology (CST) – Ex-president of the EMS (2001-2002)- On Editorial board of 5 Scientific Journals – Participated in 3 EU projects – Co-ordinated Nordic membrane Network

ITM-CNR RES Italy

Res.: 7 PhD S.: 3

PIJ : 60 last 2 years, 14 patents

Functionalised membranes, mass transfer catalysis, , membrane contactors, applications in agro-food and pharma industries

Prof. Drioli Enrico: Honorary founding president of EMS, member of edit. Boards of various scientific journals, int. consultant

ICTP hosts VSCHT and Academy of Sciences of Prague HE Czech Republic

Res.: 8 PhD S.: 3

Pub.: 215 - PIJ: 51 - PC: 158 - Pat.: 6 - Aw.: 3 Karl Wagner Medal of Excellence

Nanoporous membranes, gas separations, mass transport modelling

Pr B. Bernauer, Vice rector of ICTP, 29 year research exp., 35 publications, 5 patents

DTU HE Denmark

Res.:4 PhD S.:3

PIJ:38(last 10 years) PC:37 (last 10 years) Pat:6 (last 10 years)

Membrane preparation and surface modification. Membrane characterisation and membrane transport modeling. Polarization and fouling phenomena. Process design and process integration. Electromembrane processes. Membrane contactors Aplications in food- and biotech industries. Preparation of nano-porous inorganic membranes.

Prof. G. Jonsson: 30 years exp in membrane research and teaching. about 100 publications, 6 patents, Editorial board: JMS, Sep & Puri Tech, Desalination. Participated in 3 EU projects and Nordic membrane network. Co-founder: Microfiltration Technology; SurfArc, Jurag Separation.

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CNRS Professor Gilbert M. RIOS is the coordinator of NanomemPro. He holds the chair of Chemical Engineering at ENSCM (a university-level college for the education of qualified engineers in chemistry) and is the deputy-director of the European Membrane Institute (IEM UMR 5635) a mixed research unit of ENSCM, University of Montpellier and CNRS. He is also the Head of a Doctoral Post-graduate programme in Chemical Engineering at the University of Montpellier. His research activities during the last 20 years have been focused on various topics such as ultra- and nano-filtration, membrane contactors (osmotic evaporation), enzymatic membrane reactors or hybrid separation processes (adsorption/MF; NF/electrophoresis). He has also participated in the investigation of process intensification by integration of membrane systems. Another original topic he has launched is the simultaneous use of porous membranes & supercritical fluids (SC) for designing new processes (nanofiltration/SC extraction; filtration of viscous liquids by high pressure CO2 injection). In each case a strong emphasis has been put on transfer theory and modelling, coupled transfer/reaction mechanisms, simulation, optimisation of new membrane properties and process performance as well as scaling-up. These studies involved preferably inorganic or hybrid membranes, either commercial or developed in the lab (hybrid membranes functionalised by grafting biological molecules on ceramic supports). Following all these activities, he is the author or co-author of 5 patents and more than 150 publications in International Journals, Congress proceedings and books. He supervised or co-supervised 23 thesis. Prof. G.M. Rios has been in charge of a lot of research programmes and expertises at the national or international level. He has developed collaborations with a lot of institutions in France and abroad, especially in the south of Europe (Spain, Portugal), South America (Chile, Brazil and Venezuela) and India. Prof. G. M. Rios has been member of the organizing or scientific committee of several international congresses (Europ. Congress on Chemical Engineering, Int. Congress on Inorganic Membranes, Iberico-Americano Congresses on Membrane Sci. and Technol., Int. Congress on Eng. and Food…). He is a member of the Scientific Editorial Board of Chemical Engineering Research and Design, the official Journal of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering He is entitled as CEng, FIChemE (London) and member of the European Membrane Society (EMS). Pierre AIMAR - born: April 8, 1957 in Lannemezan (France) Directeur de Recherche CNRS (Senior Researcher – Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) • Summary of career:

- 1980: Graduate Engineer in Electrochemical Engineering from Institut National Polytechnique, Grenoble (France)

- 1982: Doctorate (Docteur Ingénieur) in Chemical Engineering from Institut National Polytechnique, Toulouse (France)1

- 1987: Doctorate (Docteur ès-Sciences) in Chemical Engineering from Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse2 - 1988: Post Doctorate: University of Bath (Pr. J.A. Howell) U.K. - 1990: On leave at the Elf-Aquitaine Research Center (Lacq, France)3

• Scientific activity: - Supervision or co-supervision of 18 thesis - Co-author of 67 refereed papers, 3 patents and 16 invited lectures at International conferences - Secretary of the European Membrane Society (1992-2003) - Editor of “Journal of Membrane Science” - « Referee » for: Société Française de Génie des Procédés, Journal of Membrane Science, Chemical

Engineering Science, American Institution of Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Colloid and Surfaces; Separation Science and Technology, Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, Ministère de la Recherche et la Technologie (F), Engineering and Physics-Science Research Council (UK), Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (UK), National Science Foundation (USA) , Conseil National de la Science (Canada)

1Recovery of silver from photographic wastes assisted by electrodialysis 2Transport mechanisms in ultrafiltration 3Design and operation of an electro-ultrafiltration pilot plant

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Imperial Professor Andrew G. LIVINGSTON (AGL) is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London. This Department has been recognized as the premier UK chemical engineering research department through consistently scoring 5* (the highest possible rating) in the UK government Research Assessment Exercise. AGL graduated in Chemical Engineering in New Zealand in 1984, and worked in the NZ food industry before coming to the UK to do his PhD in Chemical Engineering at Trinity College, Cambridge. He then joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College in May 1990, and became Professor of Chemical Engineering in 1999. He currently leads a research group of around 15 post-docs, PhD students. AGL research has focused on the creation of new separation processes involving membranes for applications in the chemicals/fine chemicals/pharmaceuticals/biotechnology industries. This involves gaining a fundamental understanding of membrane transport processes, developing new membranes, coupling the transport in membrane systems to biochemically and chemically reacting systems, and demonstrating the efficacy of these new processes. He has carried out detailed research into membrane attached biofilms, extractive membrane reactor systems, and solvent nanofiltration and its application in organic synthesis. He has contributed to EU competitiveness through a spin-out company he founded, Membrane Extraction Technology (MET) Ltd, who have commercialized at process scale two processes invented and patented by AGL, the Extractive Membrane Bioreactor, the Membrane Aromatic Recovery System. AGL has coordinated two research programmes under the EU framework V, and has participated in several Marie Curie training programmes. He has served on the scientific panels of several international conferences, and serves on the Editorial Board of Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology. AGL is a Fellow of the Institute of Chemical Engineers. He won the Danckwerts-Maxwell prize for his PhD dissertation in 1990. He was awarded the Junior Moulton Medal of the IChemE in 1993, and led a team which won the Cremer and Warner medal of the IChemE in 1997. AGL has published 110+ papers in international refereed journals and obtained 10+ patents, and given numerous conference presentations and papers. IBET Professor João G. CRESPO (JGC) integrates the Chemistry Department (Chemical Engineering) at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. He is also a member of the Associated Laboratory “Requimte”, one of the top 15 research institutes in Portugal, where he was coordinator of the Chemical Engineering Area from 2000 to 2003. He is currently the director of the Laboratory of Membrane Processes at IBET, a private non-for-profit institute, which acts also as a technology transfer centre. JGC graduated in Chemical Engineering at the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal (1983) and, after a period working in the fertiliser industry, he got his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (1990). He spent a Post-doc at the GBF, Braunschweig, Germany (1990) and a sabbatical leave at the University of Bath (1997). In 2001, JGC obtained his “Habilitation” in Chemical Engineering from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. JGC has been working in membrane processes since 1986 and focused his research on the development membrane bioreactors, for drinking water treatment and production of fine chemicals, as well as the study of separation processes for recovery of biologically active molecules from complex streams. He has been particularly involved on the development of models for membrane transport and development of new monitoring techniques for membrane processes, namely electronic sensing systems, 2D-fluorometry, on-line MS and Confocal Microscopy. He has been involved on several research programmes under the EU framework and advanced education programmes (10 PhDs concluded under his supervision). He has served on the scientific panels of several international conferences, and serves on the Editorial Board of Journal of Membrane Science. JGC was director of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on “Membrane Processes in Separation and Purification”, 1993 (co-directed by Prof. Karl Böddeker) and Editor of the book with the same title, published by Kluwer Publishers in 1994. He was Vice-president of the Portuguese Society of Biotechnology (1992-1996) and he is a member of the Council of the European Membrane Society since 2001. JGC has published 90+ papers in international journals and obtained 2 national patents and 5 international patents. Professor Maria Norberta de PINHO, PhD in Ch.Eng. (U. Florida, U.S.A., 1976), is an Associate Professor with Habilitation of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST).IST is the Engineering College(Undergraduate(9000 students),MSc & Ph D programmes) of the Technical University of Lisbon. She is the coordinator of the Membrane &Membrane Separations Group (8 PhDs (5 Faculty members) and 5 Ph D students) in the Unit of Chemistry & Tech. of Functional Materials (UQUIMAF) of the Institute of Materials and Surface Science & Engineering (ICEMS). Her research in Chem. Eng./Membranes /Materials Science has been mainly directed towards polymeric membranes: synthesis, characterisation, application in separations & devices after 1983 when together w/ P. Bungay & H.Lonsdale she organised a Nato ASI in ”Synthetic Membranes: Science, Eng. and Applications”. She was Coordinator of two European projects: A BRITE/EURAM (1991-1994) that resulted in the development of Nanofiltration (NF) membranes& modules (tubular & spiral wound) and a NF/ED process for process water

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recovery in the pulp & paper industry; A ECSC Coal Research project (1997/2000) for the development of a NF/Stripping process for the recovery of wastewaters in Coke Plants. In 1988/1990 she was the Coordinator of a COMETT project of European courses in Membranes & Clean Technologies for the water, dairy & wine industries. She has over 100 publications in J. of Memb. Sci., Desalination, Polymer, Macromolecules, etc., and one patent (NF for the production of wine with low-alcohol content). She was Visiting Researcher in Max-Planck Institute of Frankfurt (1977/1978), National Research Council of Canada (1984/1985), University of Aachen (Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, 1986/1987), M.I.T. (2003). She has hosted several international Pos-Doctoral Fellows. She has supervised 8 PhD Thesis & 6 MSc Thesis. She has been Referee of A.I.Ch.E.Journal, Ind.&Eng.Chem.Research, J.Mem.Sci., Biomacromolecules, etc. She has served as an expert in the evaluation of International Grants and European Programmes (BRITE/EURAMII, Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources, Environment and Sustainable Development). She is a Fulbright Fellow, a member of A.I.Ch.E. and of the European Membrane Society.

GKSS Dr. Klaus-Viktor PEINEMANN received his Diploma in Chemistry and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Kiel (Germany) in 1978 and 1982. He is working in the field of membrane science and technology since 1977. 1985/86 Dr. Peinemann worked as project leader at Membrane Technology and Research in Menlo Park, USA, where he was in charge of membrane development for different separation processes. Since 1986 he was Head of Dept. “Membrane Development” at GKSS Research Center in Geesthacht Germany. Dr. Peinemann has more than 100 publications in the field of membrane science and he holds 22 patents (16 granted and 6 pending). He organized numerous national and international workshops in the field of membrane materials and meembrane formation. In 1996 Peinemann co-founded the membrane company GMT GmbH in Rheinfelden, which is now a world-wide operating company selling membranes and membrane modules for gas and liquid applications. Since 1997 he lecturing at the University of Hannover, Germany. Since the last 15 years Dr. Peinemann was in charge for 10 European projects in the field of membrane technology. Currently he is coordinator of the 6th Framework project COMPOSE. Dr. Peinemann is currently President of the European Membrane Society. FORTH/ICE-HT Vasilis BURGANOS is a Research Director at ICE/HT-FORTH with 20 years of research experience. He holds a Dipl. Ing. degree in chemical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens and a PhD degree from the University of Rochester (N.Y.). His research interests include investigations of diffusion and sorption in porous materials; pore structural analysis; semiconductive gas sensors; separation processes; conduction in random media; combustion processes; single and multi phase flow in porous media. Emphasis is placed on the development and use of models and simulators for the study of the structure of porous media (computer-aided reconstruction, crystal structure simulation) and of transport and sorption phenomena in the interior of microporous, mesoporous, and macroporous materials (Molecular Dynamics, Monte Carlo, lattice-Boltzmann, and continuum approaches). He has been the guest editor for the MRS Bulletin issue on “Membranes and Membrane Processes” (March 1999) and coordinated the organization of the MRS Symposium on “Membranes: Preparation, Properties and Applications” (Boston, 2002). He has coordinated or participated in several European and competitive national projects, and 3 industry-funded, focused on materials, environment, and modeling tools. He is the Editor of 3 books and author or co-author of more than 90 publications in international journals and conference proceedings. He is referee in several scientific journals and evaluator of research proposals. He served as member of the MRS Academic Affairs Committee (2003).

Vito Dr. Inge GENNÉ (IG) is a Project Manager at the Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO). VITO implements client-driven research projects and develops innovative products and processes. Specific problems are addressed within VITO’s centres of expertise dealing with energy consumption in processes, new materials and environmental protection and innovation. The centre of expertise Environmental and Process technology supports and improves industrial technological processes. Specific expertise has been build up in the field of membrane technology. The Membrane Technology group has a long background and a solid reputation. More than 15 people are active in the field of membrane development, process design & control and application studies. The emphasis lays on pressure driven membrane processes and membrane bioreactors. Currently, the “membrane development” activities comprise the fields of separator materials, ceramic membranes and polymeric capillary membranes. VITO participated to several European projects and networks on membrane characterisation and development and owns several patents.

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Dr. Inge Genné graduated as chemist at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. From 1991 till 1996 she worked at VITO as a researcher and prepared her PhD under the supervision of the Department of Chemistry of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. In 1996, she finished her PhD on ‘Formation an characterisation of organo-mineral ultrafiltration membranes’. From 1996 till 2001, she worked as a Projectleader in the field of membrane technology. Since 2002 she is the Project Manager of the contract research concerning wateraudits for industrial clients and for government bodies. She also coordinates and participates to European and national research projects in the field of Water and Membrane technology. Dr. Inge Genné chaired the Euromembrane99 conference and is a board member of the Dutch membrane society and the Technical working group on ‘Water in Industry’ form the Water Supply and Sanitation Technology Platform.

SINTEF Rune BREDESEN (born 1956) is Chief Scientist in SINTEF Materials and Chemistry. He received his MSc (82) and PhD (91) from the University of Oslo, where he was Assistant Lecturer 1982-1998. Bredesen has been a pioneer in the field of inorganic membranes in Norway, starting in 1989. In 1995, he started the membrane company KeraNor together with colleagues in SINTEF. Bredesen has been Coordinator of 2 EU projects on inorganic membranes, and leads the Functional Ceramics Group which has been/is involved in about 15 European Projects in the 4th, 5th and 6th FP on membrane and sol-gel technology. He is a frequent member of International Scientific Committees, e.g. the International Conference on Inorganic Membranes (ICIM6, ICIM7, ICIM8) and he will organize ICIM9 in 2006. Bredesen is the project manager of the nationally coordinated project “Functional Oxides for Energy Technology” supported by the Norwegian Research Council Program on Nanotechnology (NANOMAT). Bredesen has given several invited and key lectures at international conferences and participated in networks, COST actions etc... Bredesen has been member of the Board of the Norwegian Hydrogen Forum. He has published about 50 papers, 50 reports and holds 6 patents.

UTwente Prof. Dr.-Ing. M. WESSLING holds a M.Sc. degree from the University of Dortmund/Germany and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Twente. Since undergraduate studies, he focused on Membrane Science and Technology. He carried out his M.Sc. thesis at the University of Cincinnati on Pervaporation of aromatic isomers, followed by a Ph.D. thesis in Twente on Plasticization of gas separation membranes. The professional carrier started as a senior research scientist at MTR Inc., Menlo Park/USA where he was responsible for membrane process development in organic vapor recovery. After this, Wessling returned to UTwente as an assistant professor being responsible for gas separation, electro-driven processes and molecular modelling of membrane transport. This academic period was followed by an industrial position as department head for separation technology at Akzo Nobel Central Research/NL. Most R&D projects focused on membrane process technology in particular in combination with classical separation technology. Since 1999, Wessling heads the Membrane Technology Group. About 50 researchers concentrate on the development of new techniques controlling the (nano-scale) surface and bulk properties of membranes. Goal of the research is to develop new generic platform technologies enabling scale-up, module construction and application in areas such as health, sustainability, food and energy. Recently, Wessling spun-off two start-up companies based on generic technology platforms: (1) NANOMI (www.nanomi.com) develops new products based on phase separation microfabrication and (2) Mosaic Systems (www.mosaicsystems.nl) develops new membrane chromatography modules for bio-pharmaceutical and medical processing. Valorization of academic knowledge is continuous effort of the membrane technology group at UTwente. About 6-10 people work within a special task force, called EMI Twente (European Membrane Institute). EMI Twente acts as an interface between academia and industry with the mission to develop new membrane products and process. It serves the need to match the long time-scales of academic research and short time-scales of industry. Wessling serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Membrane Science and Separation and Purification Technology.

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UNIZAR Professor Miguel MENÉNDEZ (MM) is a Professor (“Catedrático”) of Chemical Engineering at the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). He represents the Group of Catalysis, Membranes and Reactor Engineering (CREG, http://wzar.unizar.es/creg) at this Department, with includes 14 staff persons and a similar number of PhD students, and has been recognized by the Regional Government of Aragon as a high quality research group (“grupo consolidado de investigación”). The Department has obtained the recognition of the Doctoral courses as a High Quality Doctoral Course (only 8 from the around 50 programmes for Ph. D. courses existing at the University of Zaragoza have obtained such recognition). MM graduated in Chemistry in 1981, and did his PhD at the University of Zaragoza in 1995, becoming Associated Professor in 1987 and Professor in 2003. The CREG has been working in catalytic reactors since 1987, started the research in membrane reactors in 1991, and in zeolite membranes in 1995. Currently is well known by the developments in catalytic membrane reactors and the achievements in the development of new zeolite membranes. The group received the 3M Foundation award to research in 2001, for the application of zeolite membranes to the improvement of in-house environment. MM has participated in several EU projects related with membrane reactors (2) and zeolite membranes for gas and liquid separations (2), as well as in large number of smaller international collaborations (INTAS, bilateral actions). New zeolite membranes for gas separation and pervaporation have been developed, providing advantages over the existing commercial materials. Its research has also included the application of zeolite membranes in reactors and the characterisation of the prepared membranes for gaining a better understanding of the mechanisms involved in the separations. Has published more than hundred research publications and hundred sixty communications in congresses. Has presented 5 patents (1 PCT, 1 European and 3 Spanish), related with membrane applications. Is Associate Editor of Chemical Engineering Journal (Chemical Reaction Engineering section) and has been the president of the Congress of the Spanish Society of Catalysis (1997) and the Secretary of the organizing committee of the 4th International Congress on Catalysis in Membranes (2000). LUT Professor Marianne NYSTRÖM (MN) is the Professor of Membrane Technology at Lappeenranta University of Technology. The Department and especially the LUT Centre for Separation Technology, CST, which consists of most Laboratories in the Department and more than 10 member companies, is well known for its diversity of knowledge in separations. MN is the director of this centre as well as the head of the Laboratory of Membrane Technology and Technical Polymer Chemistry as of the Section of Pulp and Paper Technology. MN graduated in Biology from Åbo Akademi University and got her PhD from the same university in the field of Physical Chemistry. She started her group at Lappeenranta University of Technology in the beginning of the 1990ies. The group now consists of 5 post-docs, 10-15 PhD students, some international guest researchers and a couple of technicians. The research of MN focussed on characterisation of clean and fouled membranes in the beginning. The streaming potential equipment for measurements of membrane charge densities simultaneously with flux was mainly developed in her laboratory and also a unique method to measure contact angles by a modification of the Wilhelmy method. With her method also fouling and adsorption can be measured. The more important application fields have been the pulp and paper industry, the dairy and the sugar industry as well as the metal industry. Today, most of the research is focussed on nanofiltration. The laboratory has had EU projects in the different framework programmes for the development of better and acid or solvent stable membranes for the industries above. MN is a member of two EFCE working parties (vice President of one). She was the President of the European Membrane Society in 2001-2002. She serves on the Editorial Board of 5 Journals and as a referee for some 15 Journals. She has written over 200 papers and given more than 100 presentations on conferences or as guest lecturer abroad. ITM-CNR Professor Enrico DRIOLI

• Academic Career and Educational Activities. - Doctor in Chemistry, at the University of Naples in 1965. - Professor of Chemistry and Electrochemistry at the School of Engineering of the University of Naples

(since 1968) and Full Professor at the School of Engineering of the University of Calabria (since 1981). - Dean of the School of Engineering of the University of Calabria (1982-1985).

• Prizes and other Academic Titles. - Honorary Founding President of the European Membrane Society (from 1999). - Doctorate Honoris Causa in Chemistry and Chemical Technology at the Russian Academy of Science

(1992).

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- Honorary Professor at China Northwest University Xi'an, Shaanxi, P. R. of China (1991). - Honorary Member of A.V. Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis, Moscow (2001).

• Societies and Scientific Committees Membership. - Patron member of Indian Membrane Society. - Member of Advisor Board of the UNESCO Center on Membrane Science and Technology - New South

Wales University, Australia. - Member of Executive Council of the European Federation of Chem. Engineering. - Member of Interim Board of Governors of the Middle East Desalination Research Center (1994 - 1996). - Member and Moderator of Research Advisory Council of the Middle East Desalination Research Center

(from May 1997). - Member of NATO/CCMS Pilot Study on "Clean Products and Processes". - International Scientific Counselor of Membrane Industry Association of China. - Member of ASME Industrial Water Treatment Committee. - Member of the Advisory Board of the:

Journal of Membrane Science – Elsevier. - Member of the Editorial Boards of the:

Chemical Engineering and Processing – Elsevier. Desalination – Elsevier. Journal of Molecular Catalysis (1982–1992) – Elsevier. Chemical Engineering and Technology Journal - Wiley-VCH. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research (from Jan. 2002) – American Chemical Society. Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy - Springer-Verlag.

- Water Treatment - China Ocean Press. - Anales de Fisica - La Sociedad. - Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry - MAIK Nauka, Interperiodica Publ. - Journal of Separation and Purification Technology - Childwall University Press. - Acqua-Aria – Arti poligrafiche europee.

Chimica Oggi – TeknoScienze. La Chimica e L’Industria - Editrice di chimica. Orizzonti Tecnologici – CESVITEC.

- Member of the Scientific Committee of ENICHEM S.p.A., Milan (1985-87), Tecnofarmaci S.p.A. (Rome); Member of the Technical Committee of CESVITEC (Naples); Concia Ricerche (Milan), etc.

- Served as expert or consultant of various National and International Organizations as U.N.D.P.; Economic Council of EUROPE, UN, Geneve; Commission of the European Community; DG XII, Brussels, Belgium; Nat. Science Foundation, Washington, USA; Australian Research Council, Canberra, Australia; Swedish Research Council for Engineering Science, Sweden; NATO (Science for Peace Program); MIUR (Italy); etc.

- Author of more than 380 articles published on international scientific journals and 14 patents. ICTP Bohumil BERNAUER (born 1949) is Associate Professor of Chemical Technology at Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague. He received his MSc (72) and PhD (78) from the Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague. His research interests are focused on applied catalytic and membrane processes, chemical technology, design of chemical processes. Actually, most of BB’s the research activities are related with composite membrane preparation and characterisation, chemical engineering modelling of the chemical reactors and separators in dynamic state and chemical process simulation using universal simulators and user-build models. He is the member of permanent staff of Department of Inorganic Technology where he was head of Department in the period 1997 – 2002, being now in the position of vice-rector of Institute of Chemical Technology. His laboratory is involved in EU and competitive national projects in the different framework (MINIREF in 5th FP) related with catalytic and membrane processes. He has been the guest editor for the Bulletin des Societes Chimiques Belges (1990-1997)) and coordinated the organization of the CHISA Symposia on meso porous and micro porous materials and membranes (Prague 2000, 2002, 2004). He is the author or co-author of more than 65 publications in international journals and conference proceedings and holds 5 patents. He is referee in several scientific journals and evaluator of research proposals.

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DTU Professor Gunnar JONSSON (GJ) is Head of the Membrane Group at Department of Chemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark. He has a M.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering from the Danish Engineering Academy in 1968 and has since 1970 been working at Department of Chemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark specializing in the field of Membrane Technology. His research interest include: Separation processes based on membrane technology: Reverse osmosis, nanofiltration, ultrafiltration, microfiltration, diafiltration, dialysis, electrodialysis and bipolar membrane technology, pervaporation, gas separation, membrane distillation and membrane contactors. Ion exchange and activated carbon filtration. Transport phenomena in membranes, concentration polarization, gel formation and fouling of membranes. Membrane formation and surface treatment of membranes. He is author or co-author of about 130 publications in international journals and holds 6 patents in the fields of membrane contactors, microfiltration, electrodialysis and surface modification of polymeric membranes. Together with former PhD students he has started 3 membrane companies. GJ is member of the EFChE working party on “Membranes”, member of the boards of “Nordic Filtration Society” and “Danish Polymer Society”. He has been organiser of several European Summer Schools and Seminars and has participated in several EU funded projects. He serves on the Editorial Board of 3 scientific journals and is further referee for more than 10 journals and serves as evaluator for many research proposals. Expertise excellence The 13 “research core members” undoubtedly represent today’s nucleus of EU research centres regarding the NanoMemPro objectives, and each of them occupies a particular position. Eastern countries are also represented by the ICTP partner, plus two industries and a Romanian Network of laboratories in the Club of Interest. They have greatly contributed to developing membranes and conducted applications related to the proposed research actions in the Network. In addition, most of these Centres got to know each other well and work in close collaboration during the previous 4th and 5th Framework Programmes, either on research and development-oriented tasks or within the scope of education Networks. Finally, by associating other members that would be selected (specific call for proposals, national research or working groups…) for their fine knowledge of the particular addressed question (membrane material, process or applications), the Network could include many multidisciplinary knots in which all the scientific “weapons” available could be implemented simultaneously in order to get the best results and converge quickly to industrialization purposes. Starting from and while developing their complementarities, the Network will aim at creating a virtual and world-oriented membrane laboratorium to help Europe restore its leadership. These institutes are now developing studies on nanoscale properties materials (organic, inorganic or hybrid) specifically devoted to the development of advanced processes and systems, in the forefront of research and development. The various publication and communication tasks that they produce bear large testimony to this fact and to their capacity to spread scientific excellence all over Europe. The aim is to associate by different means the major European research teams in membranes. This should thus allow for the constitution of the really prime world force in this field that Europe is asking for.

Industrial and citizen awareness members (Club of interest) An important number of SMEs, manufacturing and end-user “permanent member companies” evenly distributed over large and complementary fields of activities as well as countries has also been constituted the so called NanoMemPro Club of Interest. This “club” represents the main industrial fields and needs related to membrane technologies in Europe. All these companies have validated their interest by a letter of appointment to participate in this Club of interest. Moreover, the Club is open permanently to new members, other industries but also citizen-oriented organizations (consumer organizations concerning water, health, environment, energy) public services and NGO’s or international organizations like UNESCO, that can also get useful information to increase people awareness and improve citizen participation in orientation of research activities improving so their needs for a better quality of life.. The objective is to create a permanent and strong synergy among the new pole of excellence in membranes and the industry and particularly SMEs, users, consumers, regulators, public authorities, financial institutions in order to create a coherent and durable framework in which these technologies can be developed and marketed.

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Country Activity - Interest in NanoMemPro Contact Name Contact Email1 GVS (SME) I Filter components for medical, pharmaceutics, automotive sectors Nino Gaeta sng@gvs.com2 Tropical SA (SME) GR Polymeric membranes for fuel cell applications G.Lagios tropical@otenet.gr 3 CTI (SME) F Ceramic and nanomaterial coatings, liquid metals filtration, catalysis Jean Pierre Joulin ctisa@ctisa.fr4 FUMA Tech D Polymeric membranes, Membrane equipment Bernd Bauer postmaster@fuma-tech.de

H. Olapinski h.olapinski@membraflow.deBarbara Seling b.seling@membraflow.de

6 Polymen (SME) F Polymeric membranes, design for water end effluent treatment Olivier Lorain polymem@wanadoo.fro.lorain@polymem.fr

7 RHODIA ORELIS F Treatment of effluents, membrane ultrafiltration Valérie Thoraval Valerie.THORAVAL@EU.RHODIA.COM8 ALFA LAVAL DK Membrane modules, equipment Frank Lipnizki frank.lipnizki@alfalaval.com9 MAST CARBON (SME) UK Carbon material membrane Steve Tennison steve.tennison@mastcarbon.co.uk10 NANOMI (SME) NL Manufacturer of nano and micro-fabricated membranes / info@nanomi.com

Vincent Thulliez Vincent.Thulliez@solvay.comJohn Brunea John.Brunea@solvay.com

12 Johnson Matthey UK Design and fabrication of membrane-based equipment D.Thompsett THOMPD@matthey.com13 Eurodia F Membrane modules, equipment Florence Lutin florence.lutin@eurodia.com14 Applexion F Membrane modules, equipment Marc André Theoleyre marc-andre.theoleyre@applexion.com

Mika Martikainen mika.martikainen@kemira.comMagnus Kvant magnus.kvant@kemira.com

16 KeraNor NO Ceramic filters and membranes producers Dr. Bernt Thorstensen bth@keranor.no17 Wallace&Fiernan GmbH - Germany DE Producers/suppliers of ultrafiltration systems for water treatment Georg Csontos georg.csontos@siemens.com18 DANONE F Food industry processes Denis Paquet dpaquet@danone.com19 SAFINA a.s (SME) CZ Chemical and medical materials, waste treatment / info@safina.cz20 Hellenic Petroleum S.A. GR Separation of gas and volatile hydrocarbon mixtures J.Psychogios ipsichogios@hellenic-petroleum.gr

Hervé Buisson herve.buisson@veoliawater.comJ.C. Schrotter jean-christophe.schrotter@veolia.comPekka Piiroinen pekka.piiroinen@danisco.comJohn Jensen john.jensen@danisco.com

23 AIRLIQUIDE F Industrial gas, energy production Lian-Ming Sun Lian-Ming.Sun@AirLiquide.com24 STANDA INDUSTRIE (SME) F Bio-Additive for food industry, packaging E. Roussel standa@mail.cpod.fr25 TOTAL F Oil production, carbon mixtures, chemistry, energy Jacques-Louis Bousquet jacques-louis.bousquet@total.com26 PERNOD-RICARD F Beverage industry, technology and processes Danielle Kohler danielle.kohler@pernod-ricard-rd.com27 BASF D Chemistry and industrial process Hartwig Voss hartwig.voss@basf-ag.de28 GlaxoSmithKline UK Medicine, pharmacology, cellular membranes Luisa Maria Freitas dos Santos Luisa.M.Freitas.Dos.Santos@gsk.com29 Rhodia F Fine chemistry Ju Kong Liou jun-kong.liou@eu.rhodia.com30 Akzonobel NL Chemistry and industrial process Geerald Bargeman gerrald.bargeman@akzonobel-chemicals.com31 Aquasource - Degremont F Treatment of water, effluents Patrick Sauvade patrick.sauvade@aquasource.fr32 ESA EU Aeronautic and Space Pierre Brisson pierre.brisson@esa.int

33 Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) NL Applied energy research Paul Pex pex@ecn.nl

34 EKB Technology Ltd - UK UK End Users of Ion-selective membranes for Reverse electrodyalisis, ElectrosepaDr. Michael Wright mike.wright@ekbtechnology.com

Andrew Boam atb@membrane-extraction-technology.com

Ali Nozari ali@membrane-extraction-technology.comLina Christipoulou l.christopoulou@ic.ac.uk

36 MIKROPUR s.r.o. (SME) CZ Filtration and membrane separation Jaroslav Pridal jara.pridal@mikropur.cz37 Technomembranes (SME) F Membrane separation processes experimental and theoretical expertise Jean-Christophe Laserre technomembranes@wanadoo.fr38 Germanos SA (SME) GR Purification of hydrogen rich gases for fuel cell applications C.Kartalis kelm@germanos.gr39 UPT (SME) D Effluents treatment Bernhard Schlichter contact@upt.de40 ACCELERYS (SME) UK Software for pharmaceutical, chemical, and materials research Gerhardt Goldbeck-Wood gerhard@accelrys.com

Carmen Moldovan cmoldovan@imt.roClaudia Enoiu claudiae@imt.roNadia Simion nsi@ebn.bePhilippe Vanrie PVA@ebn.beSiobhan Mc Quaid

43 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Membrantechnik e.V. (DGMT) DE German society of membranes Winfried Schmidt winfried.schmidt@fh-gelsenkirchen.de

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45 Club Français des Membranes F Stéphane Sarrade SARRADES@atil.cea.fr46 SVILUPPO ITALIA Elena Colonna ecolonna@sviluppoitaliafvg.it

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The consortium has had several contacts with other companies that are interested in the Network activities such as: PCI (UK), Gambro-Hospal (D), Nestlé (CH)… Unfortunately, we could not get yet their formal agreement. Nevertheless, if the Network of Excellence is accepted for funding, the Club of Interest will be still open to them as well as to other members. Through this Club of Interest, NanoMemPro has access to the whole chain (manufacturers, expertise, end-users, and business support) for successful and fast technology exploitation. It is recognised that innovative products are more likely to arise where there is a cooperation of all concerned stakeholders. Enterprises that have a high innovation record are often these that participate in networks with other organisations acting in the domain. The interaction between competition and innovation processes as part of the NanoMemPro/Club of Interest collaboration, aims at encouraging a smooth flow of new knowledge among the stakeholders, recognizing the role of the members of the Club of Interest in promoting innovation, and ultimately leading to a greater competitive advantage for them at the international level. Such a two-way process will result in added value to the researchers, the companies within the Club of Interest and ultimately the global society.

CENOBITE: The Eastern Scientific Connection of NanoMemPro IMT coordinates the Romanian CENOBITE Network in nano-biotechnologies that is willing to collaborate with NanoMemPro Network for the purpose of dissemination, training and connection to research teams in Romania and Eastern countries. To make this collaboration possible, the following points should be considered: organisation of multidisciplinary courses and short exchanges of personnel; support for regional dissemination and communication activities (website, bulletins, newsletters, thematic workshops); arrangement of visits for foreign scientists in Romania; dissemination of information about NanoMemPro to other potential partners from the region. As coordinator of the CENOBITE Network, IMT can offer an access point for sharing their dissemination and training capacities.

EBN: The Business Network of NanoMemPro EBN is the European Business and Innovation Centre Network, an international non-profit association that was created in 1984 to co-ordinate the networking activities of EC Business & Innovation Centres (BICs). At present, EBN has over 230 members, including 160 BICs and 70 associated members in the 15 EU Member States and in 11 other countries (Central and Eastern Europe, Turkey, Canada, USA, Egypt, China...). Over the last two decades, EBN has become a reference point in Europe on innovation, spin-off, incubation, entrepreneurship, SMEs, and regional economic development. Networking is EBN’s core business. Services provided to stimulate networking activities include access to information (monthly newsletters, flash news updates, website, development of databases of incubator and SME profiles, on-line networking tools etc) and events (annual Congress, seminars, etc) leading to the pooling of knowledge and best practices among the Network members.

Figure 13: NanoMemPro spreading through EBN

EBN is therefore ideally suited with regard to providing support in networking and dissemination of knowledge for the NanoMemPro Network. Moreover the access to a worldwide network of business-related professionals is a unique opportunity for NanoMemPro to spread its excellence, promote innovative technologies and stimulate the creation of new businesses and entrepreneurships. In parallel, the EBN gives access to a large number of SMEs through incubators both within and outside the EU, able to detect and exploit the opportunities offered by NanoMemPro. The EBN network can also provide additional supports to NanoMemPro like business planning support or training of future entrepreneurs among researchers.

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Club of Interest/Nanomempro: The Interaction Framework The members of the Club of Interest will participate in several NanoMemPro activities that can be summarised below: Confidential advanced information

− Members will be informed about activities and recent development in the field by the Network through confidential newsletters and specific access to advanced information.

− Private access to expertise for consultancy on various scientific and technological problems. These services and the way they can be implemented will be defined at the beginning of the collaboration.

Research activities − Participation in collaborative research programmes of member interest funded in the framework of the 6th

Programme. − Research can be initiated by some members of the club of interest after NoE results assessment and will be

financially supported by them. In this case, PhD studies can be financed by the industrialists. − Participation in specific experimental validation of innovative lines of materials. Collaboration will be

sought with industries covering a large variety of sectors (food, environment, health, energy…) to study the effectiveness of developed solutions prior to technology transfer.

Market studies − The Club of Interest can provide inputs on the market and the societal needs. End-users members will be

able to specify their needs. − Specific studies will be conducted for the different sectors that are represented in the Club of Interest.

Dissemination activities − Members of the Club of Interest will be a potential target for effective spreading of excellence and

implementation/validation of the Network’s results. They will inform the industrial community and the society about potential applications. They can facilitate the contact to other stakeholders in their domain e.g. environmental agencies.

Technology transfer − The Club of Interest will facilitate the identification of the Network results that can be converted either into

economic, social or technical added value. − Workshops and demonstrations can be organised in order to present new technologies.

Training activities − NanoMemPro will transfer the excellence acquired in the Network to the members of the Club of Interest.

Lifelong training activities will be implemented at a professional level, for the researchers and engineers to master the best available technologies and methods.

− Joint “transferable skills” workshops will be organised with the aim to introduce more entrepreneurial skills into the Network to enhance the practical exploitation of results. The contents will span the exploitation of IPRs, business management, research management, industrial career and technology management.

− Specific workshops/seminars can be organised for the Club of Interest, on a subject about which they express a strong concern or that is topical.

Research funding − The synergy between NanoMemPro and the Club of Interest is expected to create various collaborations of

common relevance, and open new possibilities for industrial funding, for technology transfer, for demonstration projects and for cost sharing, thus increasing the financial resources of the Network.

− Members of the Club of Interest should stimulate research and attract research funding at regional, national and European level with respect to membrane industry, and spreading research results to industry at large.

− The Network and the Club of Interest will work to reach an agreement on a financing scheme that will establish a participation of industrialists to the Network’s financial sustainability and durability.

− The industry will then be able to finance the specific studies of its interest in the framework of the Network or even create synergies for further collaboration under the Commission’s 6th FP. One objective together with the Club of Interest is to contribute a durable financing of the Network activity by creating services for the private and public sectors.

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Consortium agreement

− A specific clause dedicated to the role of the Club of Interest is added to the NanoMemPro consortium agreement. This clause will present the organisation of the Club of Interest and the rules of collaboration that apply to both the Club and the Network (i.e. confidentiality agreement, access rights, knowledge usage, partnerships – inclusion, withdrawal of a member – , expenses, publicity etc…).

IPRs consideration − In the case of specific studies or researches for members of the Club of Interest, a confidentiality agreement

will be signed with the consortium. The Industrial Property Rights of results will be specified in this bilateral agreement and will be adapted according to the specificity of the research contract type (e.g. private funding, public funding, European funding, share-cost basis…).

The quality of the collaboration NanoMemPro/Club of Interest will be measured and constantly improved by specific indicators throughout the life of the Network.

European Membrane Technology Platform (Membrane House): Services to the Club of Interest The strategic element of the NanoMemPro approach is the creation of a European Membrane Technology Platform (EMTP). The EMTP will be set up by the NanoMemPro Network as the long-lasting answer of the most important membrane science actors in Europe to restructure European research and reorganise the knowledge supply chain and technology transfer. This platform will be the key of the whole European membrane innovation policy aiming at accelerating the entire innovation procedure and the fast transfer to industry. It will bring together all interested stakeholders with a view to developing a long term vision, and creating a coherent and dynamic strategy to achieve that vision and steer its implementation. In addition, this new platform is structured under the umbrella of the legal entity which will be set up for a lasting financial and administrative management of the Network. It will be the vehicle to foster effective public-private partnership and collaboration between membrane users, regulatory authorities and policy makers. It could mobilise the research and innovation efforts and facilitate the emergence of a new membrane market in Europe.

The EMTP platform comprises five main modules with networking ability, dealing with: • characterisation of membrane function, • modelling and simulation of membrane performance, • synthesis optimisation of membranes, • design of new mass production processes, • databases about membrane knowledge. This platform will permit to provide advanced and high technology services to industries, public organisations, and research centres. The available services can be summarised as follows: • Industrial and academia access for experimental tests and R&D projects in the most advanced membrane

technologies in Europe. • Technology transfer of marketable products and processes with pilot demonstration capacities for evaluation

of their performance. • Access to advanced scientific information in membrane sciences through e-letters, data bancs, standardized

procedures. • Training facilities in new methodologies and techniques for industrial applications aimed at researchers,

students, scientific teachers and scientific staffs of companies. • Citizen awareness through open visits, activity reports, participation in citizen-related events for the diffusion

of sciences. The Club of Interest represents the potential future clients of the services that will be supplied by the EMTP. During the construction of the platform, they will be informed about technological and scientific progress that shall stimulate their interest in NanoMemPro activities. Their participation in the EMTP activities shall contribute substantially in the financial autonomy of the NanoMemPro Network and the future of the Platform.

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APPENDIX A - MISCELLANEOUS

A.1 Participants and Consortium/Excellence of participants

Proposal Number 500623-2 Proposal Acronym NanoMemPro Participant number 1

Participating organisation

Organisation legal name Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Organisation short name CNRS

Internet homepage http://www.cnrs.fr

List of RESEARCHERS to be integrated

Last name First name(s) Professional Status1

Gender: male or female

Connection with Joint Progr. of Activities (JPA)2,3

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AIMAR Pierre Res.Director M M/I/R/S CNRS ALBASI Claire Researcher F I/R/S CNRS AYRAL André Prof. M I/R/S Univ.Montp.2 BACCHIN Patrice Ass ; Prof. M I/R/S/ Univ. P. Sabatier BARBOÏU Mihaïl Researcher M I/R/S CNRS BELLEVILLE Marie-Pierre Ass.Prof. F I/R/S Univ.Montp.2 BOCQUET (50%) Stéphanie Ass.Prof. F I/R/S ENSCM CAUSSERAND Christel Ass.Prof. F I/R/S Univ.P.Sabatier CLIFTON Michaël Res.Director M I/R/S CNRS DEJARDIN (50%) Philippe Res.Director M I/R/S CNRS DERATANI André Res.Director M I/R/S CNRS DURAND (50%) Jean Res.Director M I/R/S CNRS INNOCENT Christophe Researcher M I/R/S CNRS JULBE Anne Researcher F I/R/S CNRS LEGRAND (50%) Yves-Marie Post-doc M I/R/S CNRS LAHITTE Jean-François Ass. Prof. M I/R/S Univ. P. Sabatier MEIRELES Martine Researcher F I/R/S CNRS PALMERI John Researcher M I/R/S CNRS PAOLUCCI Delphine Ass.Prof. F I/R/S ENSCM GUMI (50%) Tania Post-doc F I/R/S CNRS POURCELLY Gérald Prof. M I/R/S Univ.Montp.2 REMIGY Jean-Christophe Ass.Prof. M I/R/S Univ.P.Sabatier RIOS Gilbert Prof. M M/I/R/S ENSCM ROUALDES Stéphanie Ass.Prof. F I/R/S Univ.Montp.2 ROUESSAC Vincent Researcher M I/R/S CNRS ROUX-de Balmann Hélène Res.Director F I/R/S CNRS SANCHEZ José Res.Director M I/R/S CNRS SETA (50%) Patrick Res.Director M I/R/S CNRS SISTAT Philippe Ass.Prof. M I/R/S Univ.Montp.2 SMAHI Monique Researcher F I/R/S CNRS TINGRY Sophie Researcher F I/R/S CNRS

VAN DER LEE Arie Research scientist/engineer

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1 E.g. Professor, Post-Doc, Research Director, Head of Research Unit xxx, 2 If the researcher is intended to be directly involved in the JPA, indicate in which of the activities of the JPA the researcher will be involved in (can be more than one). Insert

I for “Integration Activities”, R for “Jointly Executed Research Activities”, S for “Spreading of Excellence Acitivities”, M for “Management Activities” 3 If the researcher, while intended to be integrated, will not be directly involved in the JPA, insert

NDI for “Not Directly Involved” 4 A “researcher” must either be an employee of the contractor or be working under its direct management authority in the frame of a formal agreement between the contractor and the ‘researcher”’s employer. Insert here the legal name researcher’s employer if different from the contractor, otherwise insert <organization short name>

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List of DOCTORAL STUDENTS

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MADELINE Jean-Baptiste PhD preparation M R/S

ROUAIX Sandrine PhD preparation F R/S

ARNAL-HERAULT Carole PhD preparation F R/S

BARBOIU Camelia PhD preparation F R/S

DOUSSINEAU Tristan PhD preparation M R/S

ESCUDERO F. Javier Post-Doc M. I/R/S/M

FRANCK-LACAZE Ludivine PhD preparation F R/S

GABINO Francisco PhD preparation M R/S

MUVDI NOVA Carlos Jesus PhD preparation M R/S

NASR Gihane PhD preparation F R/S

QUERELLE Sarrah PhD preparation F R/S

SCHIEDA Mauricio PhD preparation M R/S

SIRIJARUKUL Suskawat PhD preparation M R/S

2 If the researcher is intended to be directly involved in the JPA, indicate in which of the activities of the JPA the researcher will be involved in (can be more than one). Insert

I for “Integration Activities”, R for “Jointly Executed Research Activities”, S for “Spreading of Excellence Acitivities”, M for “Management Activities” 3 If the researcher, while intended to be integrated, will not be directly involved in the JPA, insert

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Proposal Number 500623-2 Proposal Acronym NanoMemPro Participant number 2

Participating organisation

Organisation legal name Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Organisation short name Imperial

Internet homepage http://www.imperial.co.uk

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LIVINGSTON Andrew Professor M I,R,S,M Imperial PEEVA Ludmila Post-Doc F I,R,S,M Imperial FERREIRA Frederico Post-Doc M R, S IBET, Imperial BISMARCK Alexander Lecturer M I, R, S Imperial

LI Kang Senior Lecturer M I, R, S Imperial

BRANDON Nigel Senior Lecturer M I, R, S Imperial

TAN Xiaoyao Post-Doc M R, S Imperial MALLADI Sairam Post-Doc M R, S Imperial

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ROENGPITHYA Chayaporn PhD Student F R, S Imperial SILVA Pedro PhD Student M R, S Imperial Sereewatthanawut Issara PhD Student M R, S Imperial WEI Chiao-Chein PhD Student M R, S Imperial CHAPMAN Peter PhD Student M R, S Imperial PINK Chris PhD Student M R, S Imperial YOONG See-Toh PhD Student M R, S Imperial SO Sheung PhD Student M R, S Imperial LIN Justin PhD Student M R, S Imperial LOH Xun PhD Student M R, S Imperial SEE TOH Yoong Hsiang PhD Student M R, S Imperial SHANAHAN Antonin PhD Student M R, S Imperial CAMPOS VASCONCELOS Renato PhD Student M R, S Imperial

1 E.g. Professor, Post-Doc, Research Director, Head of Research Unit xxx, 2 If the researcher is intended to be directly involved in the JPA, indicate in which of the activities of the JPA the researcher will be involved in (can be more than one). Insert

I for “Integration Activities”, R for “Jointly Executed Research Activities”, S for “Spreading of Excellence Acitivities”, M for “Management Activities” 3 If the researcher, while intended to be integrated, will not be directly involved in the JPA, insert

NDI for “Not Directly Involved” 4 A “researcher” must either be an employee of the contractor or be working under its direct management authority in the frame of a formal agreement between the contractor and the ‘researcher”’s employer. Insert here the legal name researcher’s employer if different from the contractor, otherwise insert <organization short name>

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Proposal Number 500623-2 Proposal Acronym NanoMemPro Participant number 3

Participating organisation

Organisation legal name Instituto de Biologia Experimentale Tecnológica Organisation short name IBET

Internet homepage http://www.ibet.pt

List of RESEARCHERS to be integrated

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CRESPO João Professor,Head of Research Unit

M I, R, S FCT-UNL

DE PINHO Maria Norberta Professor,Head of Research Unit

F I, R, S Instituto Superior Técnico/ICEMS

REIS Maria d'Ascensão Professor F I, R, S FCT-UNL

RIBEIRO Rosário Professor F I, R, S Instituto Superior Técnico/ICEMS

COELHOSO Isabel Professor F I, R, S FCT-UNL

AFONSO Maria Diná Professor F I, R, S Instituto Superior Técnico/ICEMS

OLIVEIRA Rui Professor M I, R, S FCT-UNL

ALVES Ana Maria Professor F I, R, S Instituto Superior Técnico/ICEMS

GERALDES Vitor Professor M I, R, S Instituto Superior Técnico/ICEMS

CARVALHO Patrícia Almeida Professor F Instituto Superior Técnico/ICEMS

MINHALMA (40%) Miguel Researcher M I, R, S IBET PORTUGAL Carla Researcher F I, R, S IBET VELIZAROV Svetlozar Researcher M I, R, S FCT/UNL

RAJAGOPALAN Mahendran Researcher M I, R, S Instituto Superior Técnico/ICEMS

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COSTA Ana Rita PhD preparation F R, S Instituto Superior Técnico

MAGUEIJO Vitor PhD preparation M R, S Instituto Superior Técnico

CARDADOR José Luís PhD preparation M R, S FCT/UNL

MATOS Cristina PhD preparation F R, S FCT/UNL

BRAZINHA Carla PhD preparation F R, S FCT/UNL

NEVES Luísa PhD preparation F R, S FCT/UNL

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Proposal Number 500623-2 Proposal Acronym NanoMemPro Participant number 4

Participating organisation

Organisation legal name GKSS Forschungszentrum Geesthacht GmbH Organisation short name GKSS

Internet homepage http://www.gkss.de

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ALBRECHT Wolfgang Researcher m R,S GKSS BRINKMANN Torsten Researcher m R GKSS BUDER Irmgard Researcher f R GKSS EBERT Katrin Researcher f R GKSS FRITSCH Detlev Researcher m R,S GKSS GERSTANDT Karen Researcher f I,R,S,M GKSS GOMES Dominique Researcher m R GKSS KONRAD Matthias Researcher m I,R,S GKSS HEUCHEL Matthias Researcher m R GKSS HOFMANN Dieter Researcher m I,R,S GKSS LUETZOW Karola Researcher f R GKSS DIJKSTRA Marga Researcher f R GKSS NUNES Suzana Researcher f I,R,S GKSS PEINEMANN Klaus-Viktor Researcher m I,R,S,M GKSS SEIFERT Barbara Researcher f R GKSS SCHARNAGL Nico Researcher m R GKSS SHISHATSKII Sergey Researcher m R,S GKSS

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QIU Jun diploma m R University Hamburg SIEGERT Martin diploma m R University Berlin INTRIALGO Maria diploma f R University Potsdam PIMTON Juttarat diploma f R University Potsdam SCHUMANN Ingo diploma m R University Potsdam

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Proposal Number 500623-2 Proposal Acronym NanoMemPro Participant number 5

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Organisation legal name Institute of Chemical Engineering and High Temperature Chemical Processes- Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas

Organisation short name FORTH/ICE-HT Internet homepage http://www.iceht.forth.gr

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BURGANOS Vasilis Research Director Male I,R,M FORTH/ICE-HT

NIKOLAKIS Vladimiros Associate Researcher Male I,R FORTH/ICE-HT

SKOURAS Eugene Post-Doc Male I,R,M FORTH/ICE-HT

DRACOPOULOS Vasilis Associate Scientist Male I,R FORTH/ICE-HT

IOANNIDES Theophilos Principal Researcher Male I,R FORTH/ICE-HT

NEOPHYTIDES Stylianos Principal Researcher Male I,R FORTH/ICE-HT

VOYIATZIS George Principal Researcher Male I,R FORTH/ICE-HT

KONTOYANNIS Christos Associate Professor Male I,R University of Patras

KALLITSIS Jannis Professor Male I,R University of Patras

TSAKIROGLOU Christos Principal Researcher Male I,R FORTH/ICE-HT

PAYATAKES Alkiviades Professor Male I,M University of Patras List of DOCTORAL STUDENTS

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SIDEROUDI Theoharis Physics Female I,R U. Patras, Chem. Eng. GIANNAKOPOULOS Ioannis Chem. Eng. Male I,R U. Patras, Chem. Eng. PATTIS Aggelos Chem. Eng. Male I,R U. Patras, Chem. Eng. GEORMEZI Maria Chemistry Female I,R U. Patras, D. Chemisrty MICHALIS Vasilis Chem. Eng. Male I,R U. Patras, Chem. Eng. PETSI Anastasia Chem. Eng. Female I,R U. Patras, Chem. Eng.

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Proposal Number 500623-2 Proposal Acronym NanoMemPro Participant number 6

Participating organisation

Organisation legal name Flemish Institute for Technological Research Organisation short name Vito

Internet homepage http:// www.vito.be

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GYSEN Bert Programme Manager M M GYSEN

GENNE Inge Project Manager F M,R,S VITO

BUEKENHOUDT Anita Researcher F I,R,S VITO VERMEIREN Philippe Researcher M I, R VITO GEVERS Lieven Researcher M I, R VITO

VLEESCHOUWERS Roel Account manager M I, R VITO

BECKERS Herman Project Manager M R, S VITO

DOYEN Wim Project Manager M I,R,S VITO

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DE SITTER Kristien Bio-engineer F R,S University of Leuven VERECHT Bart Civil engineer M R, S University of Leuven

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Proposal Number 500623-2 Proposal Acronym NanoMemPro Participant number 7

Participating organisation

Organisation legal name The Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research at the Norwegian Institute of Technology

Organisation short name SINTEF Internet homepage http://www.sintef.no

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BREDESEN Rune Chief Scientist/Head of research unit

M MIRS SINTEF

LARRING Yngve Research Scientist M IRS SINTEF SIMON Christian Senior Scientist M IRS SINTEF RAEDER Henrik Senior Scientist IRS SINTEF LECERF Nicolas Research Scientist M IRS SINTEF KUMAKIRI Izumi Research Scientist F IRS SINTEF

NORBY Truls Scientific advisor/Professor M IR SINTEF

GRANDE Tor Scientific advisor/Professor M IR SINTEF

EINARSRUD Mari-Ann Scientific advisor/Professor F IR SINTEF

MEJDELL Thor Senior Scientist M IR SINTEF FONTAINE Marie-Laure Research Scientist F IR SINTEF SMITH Jens Bragdo Research Scientist M IR SINTEF MOLLER- HOLST Stefen Research Scientist M IR SINTEF AARHAUG Thor Anders Research Scientist M IR SINTEF SVENSSON Ann Mari Research Scientist F IR SINTEF GRANDE Tor Research Scientist M IR SINTEF GILBU TILSET Bente Research Scientist F IR SINTEF PETER Thijs Research Scientist M IR SINTEF

FLOCK Solveig Research Scientist

F IR SINTEF

KAUS Ingeborg Reseach Scientist

F IR SINTEF

STANGE Marit S.S. Reseach Scientist

F IR SINTEF

BAHHEN Egil Research Scientist M IR SINTEF YANG Yuan Research Scientist F IR SINTEF

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Proposal Number 500623-2 Proposal Acronym NanoMemPro Participant number 8

Participating organisation

Organisation legal name University of Twente Organisation short name UTwente

Internet homepage http://www.utwente.nl

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WESSLING M. Professor M M UTwente LAMMERTINK R.G.H. Ass.Prof. M I,S,R UTwente NIJMEIJER D.C. Ass. Prof. F M,I,S,R UTwente KEMPERMAN A.J.B. Researcher M I,S,R UTwente STAMATIALIS D. Ass.Prof. M I,S,R UTwente ZWIJNENBURG A. Researcher M I,S,R UTwente BORNEMAN Z. Researcher M I,S,R UTwente BOUWMEESTER H. Associate Prof. M I,S,R UTwente WINNUBST A. Ass.Prof. M I,S,R UTwente KRUIDHOF H. Researcher M I,S,R UTwente

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BALSTER J.H. M.Sc. M NDI BETTAHALLI M.S. M.Sc. M NDI BIKEL M. M.Sc. M NDI BRUINENBERG S.M. M.Sc F NDI CASADO COTERILLO

C. Dr. F NDI

DLUGOLECKI P.E. M.Sc. M NDI FISCHBEIN F. M.Sc. F NDI GEERKEN M.J. M.Sc. M NDI GIRONES I NOGUE M Dr. F NDI DE JONG J. M.Sc. M NDI KOPEC K. M.Sc. F NDI VAN DER MAREL P. M.Sc. M NDI PAPENBURG B.J. M.Sc. F NDI PETERS A.M. M.Sc. F NDI POTRECK J. Dipl. -Ing M NDI RAN R. M.Sc. M NDI REIJERKERK S. M.Sc. M NDI SAIFUL S. M.Sc. M NDI SCHRADER G.A. M.Sc. M NDI SIJBESMA H.P. M.Sc. M NDI SONG C. M.Sc. M NDI DE SOUSA ANDRE J.M. M.Sc. M NDI STERESCU D.M. M.Sc. F NDI

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VAN DE VEN W.J.C. M.Sc. M NDI VISSER T. M.Sc. M NDI VAN VOORTHUIZEN E.M. M.Sc. F NDI YILDIRIM M.H. M.Sc. M NDI ZIVKOVIC-RADOSEVIC

T. M.Sc. F NDI

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Proposal Number 500623-2 Proposal Acronym NanoMemPro Participant number 9

Participating organisation

Organisation legal name Universidad de Zaragoza Organisation short name UNIZAR

Internet homepage http://www.unizar.es

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MENENDEZ Miguel Professor M M, I, R UNIZAR SANTAMARIA Jesus Professor M M, I, R UNIZAR CORONAS Joaquin Lecturer M S, I, R UNIZAR TELLEZ Carlos Lecturer M S, I, R UNIZAR MALLADA Reyes Assist. profess. F S, I, R UNIZAR PINA Pilar Assist. profess. F I, R UNIZAR IRUSTA Silvia Researcher F R UNIZAR

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de la IGLESIA Oscar Licenciado M S ; R Dpt. Chem. Engin. TISCORNIA Ines S. Ingeniera F S, I, R Dpt. Chem. Engin. MATEO Ester Licenciada F S, R Dpt. Chem. Engin. SEBASTIAN Victor Ingeniero M S, I, R Dpt. Chem. Engin. NAVASCUES Nuria Licenciada F S, R Dpt. Chem. Engin. FARO Carlos Ingeniero M S, I, R Dpt. Chem.Engineering

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Proposal Number 500623-2 Proposal Acronym NanoMemPro Participant number 10

Participating organisation

Organisation legal name Lappeenranta University of Technology Organisation short name LUT

Internet homepage http://www.lut.fi

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NYSTRÖM Marianne Professor Female I, R, S LUT MÄNTTÄRI Mika Post-Doc Male I, R, S LUT PLATT Samantha Post-Doc Female R LUT PIHLAJAMÄKI Arto Post-Doc Male R LUT TANNINEN Jukka Post-Doc Male NDI LUT/Acad. of Finland project

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SJÖMAN Elina MSc Female NDI Graduate School

MEHRDAD Hesampour MSc Male NDI LUT/Project

BUTYLINA Svetlana MSc Female NDI Graduate School

PEKKARINEN Maria MSc Female NDI LUT/Project

KALLIOINEN Mari MSx Female NDI LUT

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Proposal Number 500623-2 Proposal Acronym NanoMemPro Participant number 11

Participating organisation

Organisation legal name Istituto per la Tecnologia delle Membrane Organisation short name ITM-CNR

Internet homepage http://www.itm.cnr.it

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DRIOLI Enrico Head of research Unit ITM-CNR

Male I, R, S, M ITM-CNR

ALGIERI Catia Researcher Female R ITM-CNR BARBIERI Giuseppe Researcher Male R ITM-CNR CASSANO Alfredo Researcher Male R ITM-CNR CRISCUOLI Alessandra Researcher Female I, R, S ITM-CNR CURCIO Efrem Researcher Male I,R University of Calabria DE BARTOLO Loredana Researcher Female R ITM-CNR DE LUCA Giorgio Researcher MAle R ITM-CNR FIGOLI Alberto Researcher Male R ITM-CNR GIORNO Lidietta Researcher Female I, R, S, M ITM-CNR GUGLIUZZA Annarosa Researcher Female R ITM-CNR JANSEN Johannes C. Researcher Male R, ITM-CNR LIBERTI Maria Annunziata Technician Female I ITM-CNR TOCCI Elena Researcher Female R ITM-CNR TEMPORARY STAFF BERNARDO Paola Research Contractor Female R ITM-CNR BUONOMENNA Maria Giovanna Research Contractor Female R ITM-CNR D’AMORE Emma Fellowship Female R ITM-CNR MAZZEI Rosalinda Research Contractor Female R ITM-CNR PIACENTINI Emma Fellowship Female R ITM-CNR PISCIONERI Antonella Research Contractor Female R ITM-CNR

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BRUNETTI Adele PhD Student Female R University of Calabria CAMPANA Carla PhD Student Female R University of Calabria CARAVELLA Alessio PhD Student Male R University of Calabria DI PROFIO Gianluca PhD Student Male R ITM-CNR FONTANANOVA Enrica PhD Student Female R University of Calabria GALLUCCI Fausto PhD Student Male R University of Calabria IULIANELLI Adolfo PhD Student Male R University of Calabria RENDE Maria PhD Student Female R ITM-CNR SIMONE Silvia PhD Student Female R University of Calabria SCURA Francesco PhD Student Male R University of Calabria

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Proposal Number 500623-2 Proposal Acronym NanoMemPro Participant number 12

Participating organisation

Organisation legal name Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague Organisation short name ICTP

Internet homepage http://www.vscht.cz

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BERNAUER Bohumil Assoc.Prof. M M,I,R,S ICTP BOUZEK Karel Prof. M M,I,R,S ICTP MARYSKA Martin Assoc.Prof. M R ICTP SYSEL Petr Assoc.Prof. M R ICTP FILA Vlastimil Assistant Prof. M M,I,R,S ICTP SCHROTTEROVA Daria Assoc. Prof. F I,R,S ICTP MORAVCOVA Sabina Researcher F R ICTP CILOVA Zuzana Researcher F R ICTP

SEDLAROVA Ivona Researcher F R ICTP PAIDAR Martin Assistant Prof. M M,I,R,S ICTP ŠÍPEK Milan Assoc. Prof. M R ICTP FRIESS Karel Assistant Prof. M R ICTP HYNEK Vladimír Assistant Prof. M. R ICTP SCHAUER Jan Researcher M R,S IMCAS*) BLEHA Miroslav Researcher M R,S IMCAS*)

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ST’ASTNY Petr MSc. M R ICTP SKLENICKOVA Petra MSc. F R ICTP NAVARA Vladimír MSc. M R ICTP VOPIČKA Ondřej MSc. M R ICTP PETER Jakub MSc. M R IMCAS *) Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

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Proposal Number 500623-2 Proposal Acronym NanoMemPro Participant number 13

Participating organisation

Organisation legal name Technical University of Denmark Organisation short name DTU

Internet homepage http://www.dtu.dk

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JONSSON Gunnar Professor M I,R,S,M DTU ABILDSKOV (50%) Jens Professor M I,R DTU GANI (50%) Rafiqul Professor M I,R,S DTU GERNAEY (50%) Krist Professor M R DTU JOHANNESSEN(50%) Tue Professor M R DTU LIVBJERG (50%) Hans Professor M R,S DTU VIGILD (50%) Martin Professor M I,R,S DTU

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BEIER Søren PhD Student M R DTU ELMØE Tobias PhD Student M R DTU JOHANSEN Johnny PhD Student M R DTU MITKOWSKI Piotr PhD Student M R DTU SONI Vipasha PhD Student F R DTU SZEWCZYKOWSKI Piotr PhD Student M R DTU

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Adequacy of the requested grant The high commitment of 13 research organisations and one project management partner located in 13 different countries, the multidisciplinary character of membrane research in almost all industrial sectors (energy, food, environment, health, water, industrial processes), the great interest for high quality membrane research in order to improve European competitiveness and sustainable development, and the integration of 122 researchers highly qualified in materials, processes, and applications as well as 57 PhD students, justify the adequacy of the requested grant for the NanoMemPro Network of excellence. These numbers do not represent full time equivalents. It can be notified that only 2/3 of the members’ potential was integrated when calculating the grant. However, they commit themselves to using their complete staff (over 180 researchers and over 100 PhD students) to meet the Network’s needs.

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A.2 Sub-contracting A.2.1 Sub-contracting for the preparation of the Business Plan and Strategic Research Agenda Background It is the ambition of the Network of Excellence NanoMemPro to build a European virtual laboratory of excellence in membrane materials and engineering. To arrive at a self-sustaining situation for NanoMemPro it is necessary that the R&D activities performed are demand driven by the industry that will use the results.

Currently the basic structure of NanoMemPro is that from 13 participating countries there is one national organisation from each country active in the network. This National Contact Organisation is in some way representing its countries interests. The roll out of the Network is done a.o. by building the Club of Interest, which is an assembly of other national R&D organisations and industries (activity A04).

One of the tasks in the work plan of the Network is to investigate the feasibility to transform into a Technology Platform (activity A06), a EU instrument to stimulate Europe's competitiveness. In order to do this properly it is important to have a clear view on the Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) that would address the needs and possibilities of the relevant stakeholders in Europe. A Business Technology Roadmap would lead to such demand driven SRA.

Plan of approach

1. Reinforcing the Club of Interest (CoI) Road mapping is a process of working very hard together for the relevant stakeholders in Europe to get a real European dimension. This will give them a mutual focus because with the proper sense of urgency all stakeholders are invited to express their wishes for future membrane technology. The following actions are needed: a. Appointment of National Contact Person (NCP)

The NCP is working in the network for the NCO and is responsible for all organisational and operational matters with respect to the roadmap in his/her country. (So there are 13 NCPs)

b. Description of national network situation + action plan for reinforcing CoI The NCP describes the national situation in each country in terms of societies, sector interest groups, etc. e.g. Dechema (D), Club de Membrane (F). Who are really important? How often do they meet? etc. He(she) makes an action plan on how to convince them to become part of the CoI and to participate in the TRM action.

c. Meeting of NCPs to prepare for CoI reinforcing In order to perform the action plan 1b optimal the NCPs must be instructed to be convincing to their audience that they offer them a chance to voice their absolute wishes and desires in membrane separation technology and that they cannot afford to let it pass. Leaflets, presentations etc. on NanoMemPro and the Road Mapping initiative will be made to support the NCP's in their "marketing action"

d. Reinforcing of CoI by NCP in each country The NCPs will have about 3 months to communicate with (phone, email, etc) and present to the national stakeholders NanoMemPro and the Road Mapping initiative.

e. Evaluation of building CoI The above mentioned actions will be undertaken by the joint work of NanoMemPro members and the NCPs. 2. Technology Road Mapping / Help from subcontractor In parallel to the reinforcing of the CoI, the TRM action is prepared, and it is there that we consider it paramount to benefit from the expertise of professionals used to setting up complex and long-term research agendas, so that a sound common document be produced. a. Selection of professional supporting organisation

Making a road map is a people's activity. The participants must be able to take distance from every day's small problems. This requires special professional guidance to ensure optimal result of the road mapping action

b. Making of scenario for Road Mapping through questionnaires and appropriate meetings Everything must be planned and organised. Key to success is that participants experience the activity as smoothly running and that everybody knows what he/she is doing, with:

Step 1. Making groups (technology suppliers/users); determine roles of participants; determine business drivers/targets,

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Step 2. Road Mapping; (in the scenario: who is doing what?) Step 3. Road Mapping + Wrap up

c. Wrapping up loose ends from Road Mapping + reporting Reporting by supporting organisation; deal with loose ends by NCPs

d. Feed back of Road Maps to CoI A selection of the CoI will be asked to give feed back to the Road Maps in a presentation (1day)

e. Final Road Maps 3. Strategic Research Agenda / Help from subcontractor a. Making SRA

The results of the Road Maps will be transformed into a SRA by NCPs and a selection of the CoI. The bottom part of the road maps will be the basis for the SRAs.

b. Report back SRA to CoI As in 1d the NCPs will report back the Road Maps and SRA to CoI on a national ocassion, e.g. yearly meeting of Dechema.

c. Offer Road Maps and Strategic Research Agenda to European Commission as supporting information for programming Framework Programme 7.

Duration The duration which is envisaged for the whole process is less than 12 months with if possible the presentation of the BP and SRA before M36. The service of a French cabinet (ALCIMED) will be sub-contracted as in the second period.

A.2.2 Sub-contracting for preparation of a legal entity status

In the framework of WP05 and after examination by the Legal Services of each partner of the different possibilities to set up a legal entity able to cap the Network and to ensure durability, it appears that for the moment, the best viable solution is a non-Profit International Association, as defined by the Belgium law (AISBL).

Given that the setting up of an AISBL is beyond the area of competence of the legal services of the NanoMemPro partners, it was decided to subcontract this specific task.

For this reason the services of a Belgian private cabinet lawyer (LEXEA) will be sub-contracted as in the second period for:

- The preparation of the status of the legal entity (AISBL) - Ensuring their validation. - Ensuring their publication to the proper authorities.

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A.3 Third Parties

The contactor Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague (ICTP) will work with Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic as third party.

An Agreement concerning the cooperation between ICTP and IMCAS has been signed by the representatives of the parties for the period April 2005 – August 2008 on April 4, 2005.

The Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic 1 (IMCAS) is one of the leading, internationally recognized institutes of the Academy with activities embracing basic research and education in a broad range of specific disciplines of macromolecular science. The research activities are aimed at the synthesis of polymers and new polymer materials, polymer physics and physical chemistry of polymers. Significant succes has been achieved especially in the fields of medical and pharmaceutical applications of polymers, investigation of polymer networks, and development of new materials for separation processes and study of polymer structure on submolecular, molecular, and supramolecular levels. International cooperation is an integral part of the research and the Institute cooperates with universities and research institutions virtually all over the world.

Currently two researchers from IMCAS are working in the Network (cf page 152).

1 Address: Heyrovskeho nam.2, Prague 6 – Brevnov, Czech Republic. Phone + 420 296 809 111, Fax +420 296 809 410, e-mail : office@imc.cas.cz, http://www.imc.cas.cz